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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
True
Life
World
Elsewhere

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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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Misfortune was my god.
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What am I doing here?
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Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno
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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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