I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDThe 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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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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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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