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All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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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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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.
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I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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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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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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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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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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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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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.
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Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
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A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
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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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Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
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This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
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Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
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Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
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