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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffe

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

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City Life, Cities
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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Culture
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire

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Sin
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Its a question to ask ourselves if were not mad. But who are the madmen, in Gods name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me? – Victor Serge

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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad. – William Shakespeare

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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. – Ezra Pound

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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