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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
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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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Music fathoms the sky.
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Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.
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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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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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The People adore authority.
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Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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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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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
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An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
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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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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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