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"Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne [The Painter of Modern Life]," sec. 3 (1863) [tr. Mayne (1964)] - Baudelaire, Charles | WIST Quotations
But genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will -- a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood’s capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated. [Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à…