Arthur Rimbaud — a remark

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“What boredom. What a stupid life. What am I doing here? And what would I go looking for elsewhere?”

Original: Quel ennui!… Quelle vie bête! Que fais-je ici, moi?… Et qu’irais-je chercher ailleurs?… — The questions expose the profound dissatisfaction beneath Rimbaud’s practical life abroad. · Letter from Aden, 1884 (French)

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Arthur Rimbaud

20 October 1854–10 November 1891

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was born on 20 October 1854 in Charleville, in the Ardennes region of northeastern France, and died on 10 November 1891 in Marseille. Few writers have produced so small a body of work and so immense a legend. Rimbaud wrote nearly all the poetry for which he is remembered between his…

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