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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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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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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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The People adore authority.
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One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
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When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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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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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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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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Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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We are all born marked for evil.
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What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
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