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"Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne [The Painter of Modern Life]," sec. 11 (1863) [tr. Mayne (1964)] - Baudelaire, Charles | WIST Quotations
Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. Crime, of which the human animal has learned the taste in his mother’s womb, is natural by origin. Virtue, on the other hand, is artificial, supernatural, since at all times and in all places gods and prophets have been…