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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of 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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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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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.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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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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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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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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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
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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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