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One can only forget about time by making use of it.
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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Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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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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