There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Il ne peut y avoir de progres (vrai, c'est-a-dire moral) que dans l'individu et par l'individu lui-meme.

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Original Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.