Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDIn the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper – both of us – in ecstasy!
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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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 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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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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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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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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True life is elsewhere.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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