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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
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