A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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