“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

Variant: Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Source: Selected Poems and Letters

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French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891

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