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Everything for me becomes allegory
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
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