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You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
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La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.
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In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
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Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
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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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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
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