I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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True life is elsewhere.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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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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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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