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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
Arms Trader
Explorer
Poet
World Traveler
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Bestows
Keys
Divine
Knowledge
Love

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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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What am I doing here?
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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