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I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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