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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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I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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I am the vampire at my own veins.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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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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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
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What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
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