Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry
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Chapter 21 THE FAVOURS OF THE MOON
Chapter 22 WHICH IS TRUE
Chapter 23 L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Chapter 24 THE EYES OF THE POOR
Chapter 25 WINDOWS
Chapter 26 CROWDS
Chapter 27 THE CAKE
Chapter 28 EVENING TWILIGHT
Chapter 29 ANYWHERE OUT OF THE WORLD
Chapter 30 A HEROIC DEATH
Chapter 31 BE DRUNKEN
Chapter 32 EPILOGUE
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Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

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Capital punishment is the result of a mystic idea, totally misunderstood to-day. The death penalty has not as its object to preserve society, materially at least. Its object is the preservation (spiritually)

            
            

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