The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDI may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! – But the great Faith is Love!
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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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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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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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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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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.
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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 turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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