I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed. - Charles Baudelaire

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I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.

Charles Baudelaire

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About Charles Baudelaire

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

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Also Known As

Pen Names: Pierre de Fayis

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

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Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

There is no form of rational and assured government but aristocracy. Monarchy or republic based upon democracy are equally absurd and feeble—an immense nausea of placards.