Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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True life is elsewhere.
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