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Through the Unknown, we'll find the New
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 child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
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Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
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One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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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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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
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I am the vampire at my own veins.
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What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
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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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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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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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