A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWhat is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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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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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster
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Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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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 may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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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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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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