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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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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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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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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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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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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
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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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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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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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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 more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
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Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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