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The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
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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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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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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For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
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Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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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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