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Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
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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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When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
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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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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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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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One can only forget about time by making use of it.
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