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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
Arms Trader
Explorer
Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Farce
Perform
Everyone
Life

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Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
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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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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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