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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
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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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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
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A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
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Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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The beautiful is always bizarre.
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We are all born marked for evil.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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