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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

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
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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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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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You will always be a hyena.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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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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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