Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDAnd 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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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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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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 only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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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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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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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 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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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