French - Poet | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867
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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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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.
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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.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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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.
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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.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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