

“Love...no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?”
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“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
― Selected Poems and Letters
― Selected Poems and Letters

“One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.”
― A Season in Hell
― A Season in Hell
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