“What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire. <br class="br"> XVIII http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Fus%C3%A9es#XVIII <br class="br">Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Fusées (1867)

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French poet 1821–1867

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