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Everything for me becomes allegory
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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Quand me me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.
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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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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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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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Wine transforms moles into eagles.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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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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When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
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Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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