A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDBut, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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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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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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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 have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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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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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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