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.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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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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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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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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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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