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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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