“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”

IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier

(fr) Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance?
Le spleen de Paris (1862)
Variant: What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?
Source: Paris Spleen

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Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance?

Paris Spleen
Petits Poèmes en prose, 1869
Variant: Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance!

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