Charles Baudelaire — a remark

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“Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l’une vers Dieu, l’autre vers Satan.”

Expressing his view of human nature as divided between spiritual and destructive impulses · Journal, Mon cœur mis à nu

About Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

9 April 1821–31 August 1867

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris on 9 April 1821 and died there on 31 August 1867, leaving a body of work comparatively small in quantity but seismic in effect. Few writers have altered the possibilities of lyric poetry so decisively. Baudelaire inherited the grandeur and rhetoric of French Romanticism, yet…

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