I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatal… - Arthur Rimbaud

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I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending your strength, an irritation. Morality is a weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat · June 28, 1961 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet.

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Alternative Names: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud • Rimbaud

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I am unknown: so what?
This verses believe; they love; they hope: that's enough.

Those fine september nights, when the dew dropped
On my face and I licked it to get drunk.

The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.

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