"Tout ce qui plaît a une raison de plaire, et mépriser les attroupements de ceux qui s'égarent n'est pas le moyen de les ramener où ils devraient être."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

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Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around. — "Quelques mots d'introduction," Salon de 1845 (May 1845)