Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI 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.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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 am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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