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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
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A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
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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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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous but we do not notice 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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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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