I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce we are all forced to endure.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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