Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur Rimbaud
I’m intact, and I don’t give a damn.
Arthur Rimbaud
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
Arthur Rimbaud
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud
I is another.
Arthur Rimbaud
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
Arthur Rimbaud
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
Arthur Rimbaud
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
Arthur Rimbaud
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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.
Arthur Rimbaud
Misfortune was my god.
Arthur Rimbaud
