One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDMorality is the weakness of the mind.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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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 shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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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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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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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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Morality is the weakness of the mind.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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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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