"Always be a poet, even in prose."
-Charles Baudelaire
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"An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.“
-Charles Baudelaire
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