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"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find." — Charles Baudelaire
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"All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty." — Charles Baudelaire
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"True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin." — Charles Baudelaire
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"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust." — Charles Baudelaire
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." — Charles Baudelaire
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"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." — Charles Baudelaire
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding." — Charles Baudelaire
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"A breath of wind from the wings of madness." — Charles Baudelaire
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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." — Charles Baudelaire
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"Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses" — Charles Baudelaire
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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." — Charles Baudelaire
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"The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star." — Charles Baudelaire
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"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed." — Charles Baudelaire
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"The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of Number" — Charles Baudelaire
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"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility." — Charles Baudelaire
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"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them." — Charles Baudelaire
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"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present." — Charles Baudelaire
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"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense." — Charles Baudelaire
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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." — Charles Baudelaire
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"Inspiration comes of working every day." — Charles Baudelaire
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"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine." — Charles Baudelaire
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