Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry
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Chapter 54 No.54

Nations have great men only in spite of themselves- like families. They make every effort not to have them. Therefore, the great man must, in order to exist, possess an offensive force greater than the power of resistance developed by millions of individuals.

Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we might say that men go t

            
            

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