“The soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes so embarrassing that I suffered, upon losing it, a little less emotion than if I had mislaid, while out on a stroll, my calling-card.”

— Charles Baudelaire, book Le Spleen de Paris

L'âme est une chose si impalpable, si souvent inutile et quelquefois si gênante, que je n'éprouvai, quant à cette perte, qu'un peu moins d'émotion que si j'avais égaré, dans une promenade, ma carte de visite. <br class="br">XXIX: "Le Joueur généreux" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_XXIX._Le_Joueur_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9reux <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862)

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