What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pl… - Charles Baudelaire

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What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness.

Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, critic and translator.

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Pen Names: Pierre de Fayis

Alternative Names: Baudelaire • Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs • Charles Pierre Baudelaire • Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

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To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.

J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?

Minutes, foolish mortal, are the base mineral
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What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness. - Charles Baudelaire

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