The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce which everyone has to perform.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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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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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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