Fairness

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
-- Arthur Rimbaud


Total Eclipse (1995)
directed by Agnieszka Holland
based on Christopher Hampton's 1967 play

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Eternity

It has been found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea fled away
With the sun.

Sentinel soul,
Let us whisper the confession
Of the night full of nothingness
And the day on fire.

From human approval,
From common urges
You must free yourself,
And fly off as you may.

For from you alone,
Satiny embers,
Duty breathes
Without anyone saying: at last.

There's no hope,
No enlightenment.
In the quest for knowledge,
Only torture is certain.

It has been found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea fled away
With the sun.

May 1872
--Arthur Rimbaud


Tranlsated by Baudelaire Jones and Oliver Bernard