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You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.
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
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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