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Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”

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Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet renowned for his surrealistic poetry style. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent poetry, considered pioneers of symbolism and surrealism. more

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”

“If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.”

Ifs Want Hurt Love You

Author:C.J. Langenhoven

“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”

Knows Men World Happenings Twenties

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Cal ’s eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. “My God! She’s on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she’sdumb as a post ! You arenot having your baby in this house! You’re having it at the county hospital!”

Way Country Eye Father House Baby Becoming Posts Combination Hospitals Physicist Twisted County Frenzy

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.”

Knows Doe Eye Rose Saint

Author:Anthony de Mello

“The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.”

Should Eye Artist Evil Worst

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“He breathed out, not quite a laugh or a sob. "God, yes. Bianca, I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, even if we walk out of here into an ambush you set up with your parents, I am always going to love you.”

Ifs Parent Walks Laughing Love You You Again Love You So Much I Love You So Much Ambush

Author:Claudia Gray

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