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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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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That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!
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Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
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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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...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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Quand me me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.
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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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