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

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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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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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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 turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
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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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Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno
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No one's serious at seventeen.
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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. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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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Misfortune was my god.
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You will always be a hyena.
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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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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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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'm intact, and I don't give a damn.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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