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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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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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Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
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