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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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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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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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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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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.
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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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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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It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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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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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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