Arthur Rimbaud Quotes

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap…
• 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…
• 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…
• ...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs.…
• I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
• What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
• And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
• The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
• Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!
• I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
• I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
• 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.…
• The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
• Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
• I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that,…
• It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
• I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races…
• Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
• Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno
• I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

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