Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDA man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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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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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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