O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

Une Saison en Enfer & Le Bateau Ivre: (ed. New Directions Publishing, 1961) - ISBN: 9780811201858