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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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Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
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Il faut travailler sinon par go u t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
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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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Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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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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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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The People adore authority.
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If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.
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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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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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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
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