Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur - d'autres diraient: obsédé par - ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, - à la manière de Milton.

Charles Baudelaire

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• Je ne conçois guère (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcelé?) un type de Beauté où il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuyé sur - d'autres diraient: obsédé par - ces idées, on conçoit qu'il me serait difficile de en pas conclure que le plus parfait type de Beauté virile est Satan, - à la manière de Milton.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Satan