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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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Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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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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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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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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There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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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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