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L'étude du beau est un duel o? l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'?tre vaincu.
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.
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III: "Le Confiteor de l'artiste"

 

Charles Baudelaire

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