Marat > Marat's Quotes

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed--and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger

“Il faut être absolument moderne”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

“La libertà è uno stato di grazia e si è liberi solo mentre si lotta per conquistarla.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, A sombra do que fomos

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Se la vita avesse uno sceneggiatore, dovrebbe predisporre incontri senza cambiamenti percettibili in modo che, come dice il poeta Juan Gelman, gli anni invecchino con me, invece di riempirsi di dubbi che la ragione sulle prime si rifiuta di accettare incolpando gli occhi innocenti della verità che ha davanti”
― Luis Sepúlveda

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Je est un autre.”
― Rimbaud

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus