French - Poet | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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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.
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God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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We are all born marked for evil.
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