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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous but we do not notice it.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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France at the dinner table in faraway places but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love
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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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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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