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A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
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It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
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La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.
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If the word doesn't exist, invent it but first be sure it doesn't exist.
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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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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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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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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
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