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.
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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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