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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
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Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
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A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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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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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
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To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
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