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Quotes from Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) — Arthur Rimbaud

1854–1891 France

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8 quotes

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

I believe I am in Hell, and so I am there.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to earth.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

One must be absolutely modern.

Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Rimbaud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.