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Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
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A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
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The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.
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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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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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