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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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You will always be a hyena.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent
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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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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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