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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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...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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One can only forget about time by making use of it.
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On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
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A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
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