"I saw that all beings are fated to……" — Arthur Rimbaud
"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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Arthur Rimbaud
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85 Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud has 85 quotes on this site.
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage…
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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…
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of…
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...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd…
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is…
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of…
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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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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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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,…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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