De Charles Baudelaire

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    “I lived for a long time under vast porticos
    That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
    And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
    In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)