"What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?"

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Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1957). “Illuminations, and Other Prose Poems”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

Arthur Rimbaud

#Nothingness Quotes

“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”
“Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.”
“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.”
“Down time is not the name of the game.”
“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.”
“When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.”
“I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.”
“If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.”

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