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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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