Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

La vie est la farce a mener par tous.

Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell

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Topic

Life as performance Living inauthentically Life

Author

Arthur Rimbaud

Source

A Season in Hell

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. Une Saison en Enfer [A Season in Hell]. Bruxelles: Self-published, 1873.

Current Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "A Season in Hell." Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, translated by Paul Schmidt. Harper Perennial, 2008.

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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Topic
Being present Nature of life Life

Author

Allen Saunders
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

Another quote originally in French

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Topic
Freedom Liberation The human condition

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
The Social Contract
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
French
Time
1762 1760s 18th century
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 1, ch. 1.