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Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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