You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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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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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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