But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
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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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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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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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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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