Please help me understand this quote by Charles Baudelaire. Thanks?

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"The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes... Only the brute is good at coupling, and copulation is the lyricism of the masses. To copulate is to enter into another -- and the artist never emerges from himself."

"Style is character"

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"Bed is the poor man's opera".

Old Italian saying.