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Misfortune was my god.

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
Misfortunes
Misfortune

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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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No one's serious at seventeen.
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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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-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.
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You will always be a hyena.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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