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For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
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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Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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