“Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Il serait peut-être doux d'être alternativement victime et bourreau.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

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