A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

Charles Baudelaire
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  5. And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

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