Arthur Rimbaud - A Season in Hell (1873)

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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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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

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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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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

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I! I who fashioned myself a sorcerer or an angel, who dispensed with all morality, I have come back to earth.

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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

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Once, I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.

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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent

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At dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

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Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word.

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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

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Yet this is the watch by night.
Let us all accept new strength, and
real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
with glowing patience, we will enter
the cities of glory.

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