Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDO seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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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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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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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 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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