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  Be Drunk

  by Charles Baudelaire

  Translated by Louis Simpson

  You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it——it's the

  only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks

  your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually

  drunk.

  But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be

  drunk.

  And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of

  a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again,

  drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave,

  the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything

  that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is

  singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and

  wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be

  drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be

  continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."

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