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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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Evil comes up softly like a flower.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
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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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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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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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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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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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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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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
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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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Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
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Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.
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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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