"Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté."
— Charles Baudelaire

January 1, 1970

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Genius is nothing but youth recaptured at will. — Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”