What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce which everyone has to perform.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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