Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!
Charles BaudelaireIf wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?
Charles BaudelaireAlas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
Charles BaudelaireWhat strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
Charles Baudelaire