The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.
Charles BaudelaireFor me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
Charles BaudelaireBlessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
Charles Baudelaire