True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDLife is the farce which everyone has to perform.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my 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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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