"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory……" — Arthur Rimbaud
"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’."
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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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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that…
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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
— Richard Dawkins
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
— Eric Hoffer
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
— David Morrell
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
— Djuna Barnes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their…
— Horace Mann
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