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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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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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The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance We find delight in the most loathsome things Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
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To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
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Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
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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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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
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As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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The People adore authority.
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Through the Unknown, we'll find the New
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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