And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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