French - Poet | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
Charles Baudelaire
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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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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
ManNeverVulgarDandy
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
BeautyHellYouHeavenMatterCome
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
GreatManGreat ManImportantOnly
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
WorkBoringEverythingThanAmusing
Nothing can be done except little by little.
DoneNothingLittleExcept
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
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