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One can only forget about time by making use of it.
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
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Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
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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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Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
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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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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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Wine transforms moles into eagles.
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Everything for me becomes allegory
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I am the vampire at my own veins.
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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
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I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.
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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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An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
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The beautiful is always bizarre.
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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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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
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