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Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
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Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
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