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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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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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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 finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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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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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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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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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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I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
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There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
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It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
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