“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

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