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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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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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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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Discover day to day excitement.
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Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.
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Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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Evil comes up softly like a flower.
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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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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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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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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
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