But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI 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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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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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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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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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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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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