One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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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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