Le progrès, cette grande hérésie de la décrépitude. - Charles Baudelaire

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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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Ah! miserable dog, if I had offered you a package of excrement, you would have smelled it with delight and perhaps devoured it. In this, poor companion of my sad life, you are like the public, to whom one must never present delicate perfumes, which exasperate them, but only carefully chosen filth.

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Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.

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