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Misfortune was my god.

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.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune

Parents

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Arthur Rimbaud

Hell

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Arthur Rimbaud

Dance

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Arthur Rimbaud

Moon

Sun

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

Life

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality

Weakness

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

Love

Knowledge

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.