Charles Baudelaire

Baudelaire compares opium to a woman friend,
"...an old and terrible friend, and, alas! like
them all, full of caresses and deceptions"

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"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist
only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. "
Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867)
Les Paradis artificiels


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