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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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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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Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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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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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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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
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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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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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Wine transforms moles into eagles.
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