Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune was my god. ”

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

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics! ”

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. ”

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

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. ”

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. ”