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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Arthur Rimbaud

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Arthur Rimbaud
Age: 37 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 20
Died: 1891
Died: November 10
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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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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No one's serious at seventeen.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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