Rational Beings

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“The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)

“We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)