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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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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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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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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
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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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Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love
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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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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 world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.
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...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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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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