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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! (Charles Baudelaire)
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. View quote
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Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. View quote
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Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill. View quote
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. View quote
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. View quote
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding. View quote
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. View quote
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There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create. View quote
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. View quote
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. (Charles Baudelaire)
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. View quote
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. View quote
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. View quote
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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. View quote
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. View quote
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. View quote
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. View quote
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. View quote
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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. View quote
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. (Charles Baudelaire)
Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul. View quote
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Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it. View quote
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One can only forget about time by making use of it. View quote
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery. View quote
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