The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute, luxe, calme et volupte.
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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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