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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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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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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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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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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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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 went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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