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Flares and My Heart Laid Bare · French with an independent English translation.
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My Heart Laid Bare · Mon cœur mis à nu · XCIII
French
p. 187Plus l’homme cultive les arts, moins il b..de.
Il se fait un divorce de plus en plus sensible entre l’esprit et la brute.
La brute seule b..de bien et la fouterie est le lyrisme du peuple.
F....., c’est aspirer à entrer dans un autre, et l’artiste ne sort jamais de lui-même.
J’ai oublié le nom de cette salope... Ah ! bah ! je le retrouverai au jugement dernier.
La musique donne l’idée de l’espace.
Tous les arts, plus ou moins ; puisqu’ils sont nombre et que le nombre est une traduction de l’espace.
Intimate Journals: My Heart Laid Bare
p. 188The more a man cultivates the arts, the less he ⟨gets hard⟩.
An increasingly perceptible divorce takes place between the mind and the brute.
Only the brute ⟨gets hard⟩ properly, and fucking is the lyricism of the people.
⟨To fuck⟩ is to aspire to enter another, and the artist never leaves himself.
I have forgotten that slut’s name... Ah! well! I shall remember it at the Last Judgment.
Music gives the idea of space.
All the arts do, more or less; since they are number, and number is a translation of space.
Socrates
Reading Intimate Journals · My Heart Laid Bare · My Heart Laid Bare · XCIII
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Charles Baudelaire’s private fragments turn from art, love, and crowds to prayer, anger, work, and the discipline of writing. This complete bilingual edition presents all 117 sections of Flares and My Heart Laid Bare, including Hygiène, with an introduction and 104 explanatory notes.
Historical Text and Translation
The French follows Adolphe van Bever’s 1920 edition of Journaux intimes, printed pages 3–42 and 45–112. Its 117 Roman-numbered sections contain the complete Fusées and Mon cœur mis à nu, including Hygiène. These fragments were arranged after Baudelaire’s death; their printed sequence preserves that edition’s organization of loose sheets. The separate selection of maxims on love and the editor’s backmatter are outside this volume.
About Diotimos Editions
Diotimos Editions prepared this independent English translation directly from the French. Flares and My Heart Laid Bare retain the fragments’ abrupt turns, repetitions, images, and unfinished projects. French and English paragraphs remain paired, with verse, italics, and printed annotations preserved. The introduction places the notebooks in context; translator’s notes clarify references, ambiguities, and uncertain readings. All 104 notes meet the reader’s Essential criterion and remain available beside their passages.
Rights
Baudelaire’s historical French text and the 1920 printing are in the public domain in the United States. The independent English translation, introduction, and new editorial notes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions. The linked facsimile and catalogue identify the printed source, while a historical transcription supplies a comparison witness. Original annotations retain their attribution, and source references distinguish the printed arrangement from the surviving manuscript sheets.