Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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