Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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 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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No one's serious at seventeen.
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On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. Sensation.
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Je me crois en enfer, donc j'y suis.
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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.
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Il faut être absolument moderne.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
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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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...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.
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What am I doing here?
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.