| Poems: Paul Eluard
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| Translation: Maurice Waxmacher
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| Beloved, to indicate my desires
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| In the heaven of your words, light your mouth like a star!
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| Darling!
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| Your kisses in the living night
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| The furrows of arms wrapping around me
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| Victorious flame in the darkness!
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| Darling!
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| My visions are bright, continuous, my love!
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| Darling!
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| And if you are not with me, I dream that I am sleeping
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| And that I'm dreaming...
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| Darling!
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| Dawn is coming...
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| I love you, there is still a night in my veins
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| I've been looking at you all night
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| There's so much left for me to guess
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| I believe in the salvation of dusk
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| He gives me the power to wrap love around you
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| Ignite your thirst, live in the depths of my immobility.
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| Reveal your essence, bring deliverance to you and lose you
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| During the day, the flame is invisible (the flame is invisible!) ...
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| Goodbye sadness!
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| Hello sorrow!
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| You are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling,
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| You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
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| You are not a problem at all
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| For you mark the most miserable lips in the world with a smile,
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| Hello sadness!
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| Love of malleable bodies, the inevitability of love
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| Your caress arises unexpectedly like a disembodied monster,
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| A dejected head, a beautiful face of sadness!
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| Beautiful face of sadness! |
| (hello sadness!)
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| I could live alone without you...
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| This is who says, this is who can live without you
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| Alone, who?!
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| Live in spite of everything, live in spite of yourself,
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| The night is coming, like a transparent block,
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| I dissolve into the night
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| Hello sadness! |
| (hello sadness!) |