It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAs 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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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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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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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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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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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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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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True life is elsewhere.
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