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Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
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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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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France at the dinner table in faraway places but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
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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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All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
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