Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equ

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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