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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
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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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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
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Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.
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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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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
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The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance We find delight in the most loathsome things Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
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By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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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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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
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Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.
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