“The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.”

— Charles Baudelaire

L’amour ressemblait fort à une torture ou à une opération chirurgicale. <br class="br"> III http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Fus%C3%A9es#III <br class="br">Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Fusées (1867)

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