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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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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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