Just the other night I was reading a sentence from
Baudelaire. It is simply, unbelievably true. Baudelaire
says, ‘The truth is; the truth is beautiful; the truth is
good; the truth is God. I believe in it. That's why I am
going to oppose it.' From where does this opposition
come? Baudelaire says, ‘If I don't oppose it, then I will
not be. I have to say no; only then can I be.'
Otherwise, truth is overpowering: it envelops you, it
surrounds you. You simply disappear in it, you melt
into it...

                                                           --Osho
                                Come Follow to You, Vol. 4, ch.
Baudelaire, Charles
1821-1867    46 years
French poet, critic, translator...

born Paris

father died when Baudelaire was 6
mother remarried

considered a rebel thinker for his time, took on
subjects of death and sex

drug use, alcohol use
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