Excerpt from; "A Season In Hell"   by Arthur Rimbaud
ONCE, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME WELL, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
One night I seated beauty on my lap. I found her bitter and cursed.
  I armed myself against justice.
  I fled.  O Witches, Misery, Hate, my treasure has been entrusted in you!
  I set out to purge my mind of all human hope.  On all joy, to suffocate it, I pounced with the stealth of a wild beast.
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1854-1891
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