Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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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.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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