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Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
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Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.
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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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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!
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Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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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?
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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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Discover day to day excitement.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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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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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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