Arthur Rimbaud: Quotes about life

Arthur Rimbaud was French Decadent and Symbolist poet. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

Variant: Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Source: Selected Poems and Letters

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”

La vie est la farce à mener par tous.
Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

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

Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient.
Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)