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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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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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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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The People adore authority.
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Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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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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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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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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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous but we do not notice it.
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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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Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
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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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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
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Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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