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.
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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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