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BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES
“Grant me the grace, Lord God Almighty, to compose a few beautiful verses
which will prove to me that I am not the least of all men.”
(Starkie, 1958, 535)
“Lord, my God! You the Creator, You the Master; You who has made law and
liberty; You the Sovereign who lets things be; You the Judge who forgives;
You who is full of motives and causes, and whom, perhaps, has placed within
my spirit the taste of horror to convert my heart, like healing at the point
of a knife; Lord, have mercy, have mercy of fools and foolishness! O
Creator! Can there be monsters in the eyes of Him who knows why they exist,
how they are made, and how they could not have been made?”
(Ibid., 547)
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