One must always be drunk. That is everything: the only question.
Il faut etre toujours ivre. Tout est la: c'est l'unique question.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet and critic whose collection 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (The Flowers of Evil) revolutionized European poetry by finding beauty in urban decay, vice, and spiritual anguish. The father of modern poetry and patron saint of literary modernism, his influence extends from Symbolism through Surrealism to contemporary art.
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