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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Everything for me becomes allegory
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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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Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Quand me me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.
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Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
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With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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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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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
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