What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMy wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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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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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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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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