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Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
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The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
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Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
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Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
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