Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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 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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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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