For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved. - Charles Baudelaire

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Engraved portrait of Charles Baudelaire, facing left

For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.

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About Charles Baudelaire

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

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Notwist (Public domain / CC0)

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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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Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering
as sacred remedy for all our sins,
that best and purest essence which prepares
the strong in spirit for divine delights!
Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides) · May 1, 1992 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
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