“עוד בהיותי ילד, חשתי בלבי שתי תחושות מסוכסכות, תיעוב וסלידה מהחיים, האחת, דבקות אקסטטית בהם, השניה. בכל אדם, בכל שעה, מתקיימות שתי שאיפות בו זמניות, האחת לעבר אלוהים, השניה לעבר שטן. הפניה לאלוהים או הרוחניות היא האיווי לעלות בסולם הדרגות, הפניה לשטן או החייתיות היא החדווה לרדת בו.”

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About Charles Baudelaire

French poet, essayist, translator and art critic

Charles Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator, and art critic. He is remembered for poetry that combines formal skill with a distinctly modern sensibility, and for work that helped shape literary tastes in 19th-century France. His poems are noted for their command of rhythm and rhyme, their Romantic inheritance, and their grounding in close observation of everyday life. That blend gives his writing both musical precision and a vivid sense of the world as it is seen and lived.

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Les fleurs du mal

1958

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The Poem of Hashish

2006

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