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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes.

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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

– Arthur Rimbaud

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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

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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 believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

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Morality is the weakness of the mind.

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

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The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!”

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.”

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