.baudelaire: a self-portrait, by lois boe hyslop and francis e.hyslop, jr..

[p.15] "It was partly through leisure that I grew. To my great detriment, since leisure without fortune increases debts. But to my great profit so far as sensibility, meditation and the possibility of dandyism and dilettantism were concerned."

[p.117] "Exiled on earth in the midst of jeers,

His giant wings keep him from walking."

[p.199] "One always imagines that there will be time,

and then death, that is the irreparable, arrives."