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The People adore authority.
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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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
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Il faut travailler sinon par go u t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
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One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
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For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
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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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Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
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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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Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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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 am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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