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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
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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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I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
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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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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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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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What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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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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