Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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 Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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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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