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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
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I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
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