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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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How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
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Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
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I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.
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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
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Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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The People adore authority.
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What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
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