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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.

— Arthur Rimbaud Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) (1873)

Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.

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