I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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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 could never throw Love out of the window.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
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