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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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La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.
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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
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Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
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When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!
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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
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