Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDTrue alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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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 northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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