Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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