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Les Fleurs du mal (literal trans. "The Flowers of Evil") is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The subject matter of these poems deals with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. The initial publication of the book was arranged in five thematically segregated sections: The foreword to the volume, blasphemously defining Satan as "thrice-great" and calling boredom the worst of miseries,... full article at wikipedia
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