"Tu m’as donné ta boue et j’en ai fait de l’or."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

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You gave me your mud and I have turned it to gold. — "Ébauche d’un épilogue pour la 2e édition," Les Fleurs du Mal (1861), Appendice II: Autres pièces