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Hyperacuity — Baudelaire’s Late Fragments

“But it is not specifically in the political institutions that one will observe the effect of universal ruin, or of universal progress — it hardly matters to what name it goes by. It will be seen in the degradation of the human heart.”

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The Vollard Suite

“You see this truculent character here, with the curly hair and mustache?” Picasso asked about the Vollard Suite, “That’s Rembrandt. Or maybe it’s Balzac; I’m not sure. It’s a compromise, I suppose. It doesn’t really matter. They’re only two of the people to haunt me. Every human being is a whole colony.”

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