Quotation by Charles Baudelaire

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet. Published in Intimate Journals, sect. 91 (1887), trans. by Christopher Isherwood (1930), rev. by Don Bachardy (1989). My Heart Laid Bare (c. 1865).
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