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Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
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So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
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Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Evil comes up softly like a flower.
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