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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." Arthur Rimbaud
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"Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!" Arthur Rimbaud
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"The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth." Arthur Rimbaud
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"Life is the farce which everyone has to perform." Arthur Rimbaud
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"I'm intact, and I don't give a damn." 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." Arthur Rimbaud
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"And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!" Arthur Rimbaud
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"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter." Arthur Rimbaud
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"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life." Arthur Rimbaud
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"Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge." Arthur Rimbaud
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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." Arthur Rimbaud
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"one single true word: it is, COME BACK. I want to be with you, I love you. If you listen to this you will prove your courage and sincerity. Otherwise, I am sorry for you. But I love you. I kiss you and we'll see eachother again..." Arthur Rimbaud
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I Love You    Love   

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"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world." Arthur Rimbaud
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"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own." Arthur Rimbaud
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"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities." Arthur Rimbaud
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"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her." Arthur Rimbaud
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"He would say, 'How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away someday, far away...' And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death." Arthur Rimbaud
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"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will." Arthur Rimbaud
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"There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts." Arthur Rimbaud
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"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees /And I found her bitter /And I reviled her." Arthur Rimbaud
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"Misfortune was my god." Arthur Rimbaud
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