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I think Rimbaud and Baudelaire are over hyped, especially when you consider the lifestyle of this kind of people (not soo good exemples for the youth). More generally when you look at all the authors praised by the system and dig a little, it is very deceiving : many of them were racists, mysoginic, antisemits, alcoholic or drug users. The so called "Lumières" and their descendants were very dark sometimes. I regret some litteratures is not read in school (in France at least). What come to my mind are apophtegms of the fathers of the desert, buddhist scriptures, english poetry and litterature... There is a infinite world to read and always the same figures are mentionned...
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