QUOTES ARTHUR RIMBAUD


“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
Arthur Rimbaud


“Love…no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that’s not love. That’s stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn’t exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

 
 
“And this is what we call life! − If damnation truly is eternal! Isn’t the man who tries to mutilate himselfdamned then? I think I am in hell, therefore I am. It’s the fault of the catechism. I’m a slave to my baptism.”
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell


“As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I’m a proud man, and a lifetime’s work would be too brief an agony for me. At the last moment, I’d attack…to the right…to the left…And then—oh!—sweet old soul of mine, eternity would not have been wasted on us!”
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell


“Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.”
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
“He says: “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, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window: all they have left is cold disdain, that’s what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log…”




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