Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Jamaica Kincaid
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
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The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Matthew Arnold
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire