...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
Charles BaudelaireUnable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
Charles BaudelaireAlas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
Charles Baudelaire