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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
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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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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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Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.
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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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Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
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Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
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Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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France at the dinner table in faraway places but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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