Arthur Rimbaud

Quote: 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. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love! [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: I is another. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: 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 colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her. [Arthur Rimbaud]

Quote: Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. [Arthur Rimbaud]

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