Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMy wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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