Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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