True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIs it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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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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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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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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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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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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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