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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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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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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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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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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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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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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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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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I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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