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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?
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 in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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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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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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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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