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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
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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
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