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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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Elsewhere
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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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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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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I wrote silences nights I recorded the unnameable.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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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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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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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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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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What am I doing here?
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Misfortune was my god.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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