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Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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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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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!
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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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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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