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The text comes from the poem Obsession by Charles Baudelaire :

Comme tu me plairais, ô nuit! sans ces étoiles
Dont la lumière parle un langage connu!
Car je cherche le vide, et le noir, et le nu!

Mais les ténèbres sont elles-mêmes des toiles
Où vivent, jaillissant de mon œil par milliers,
Des êtres disparus aux regards familiers.

With the English translation by Jack Collings Squire :

Ah! How I love thee, Night, when not a star *
Speaks with known tongue of light through the dark air;
For lo! I seek the void, the black, the bare;

Yet even darkest depths but curtains are
Where live, shot from my eye, innumerable
Lost forms and faces that I know too well. **

* In French: Ah! How I would love you, Night, if there was no star, speaking of light…
** In French: Lost people with familiar eyes.

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Done for the Russian Fandom battle.

Without the text :

Description

The text comes from the poem Obsession by Charles Baudelaire :

Comme tu me plairais, ô nuit! sans ces étoiles
Dont la lumière parle un langage connu!
Car je cherche le vide, et le noir, et le nu!

Mais les ténèbres sont elles-mêmes des toiles
Où vivent, jaillissant de mon œil par milliers,
Des êtres disparus aux regards familiers.

With the English translation by Jack Collings Squire :

Ah! How I love thee, Night, when not a star *
Speaks with known tongue of light through the dark air;
For lo! I seek the void, the black, the bare;

Yet even darkest depths but curtains are
Where live, shot from my eye, innumerable
Lost forms and faces that I know too well. **

* In French: Ah! How I would love you, Night, if there was no star, speaking of light…
** In French: Lost people with familiar eyes.

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Done for the Russian Fandom battle.

Without the text :