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"Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers. Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drank of the untaxed liquor of Satan's still."

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Satan Judge Emperor General

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About Arthur Rimbaud

French poet whose innovative and intensely lyrical work transformed modern poetry while he was still a teenager. He is best known for A Season in Hell and Illuminations. Though his literary career was brief, his influence on Symbolist and modernist writing has been profound.

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