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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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An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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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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I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.
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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
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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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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
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You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.
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Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.
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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 form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
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Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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