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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
Arms Trader
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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