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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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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.
Charles Baudelaire
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Charles Baudelaire -
Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
Charles Baudelaire -
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.
Charles Baudelaire -
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire -
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire -
Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.
Charles Baudelaire
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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Et à quoi bon exécuter des projets, puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante?
Charles Baudelaire -
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire -
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Charles Baudelaire -
Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé.
Charles Baudelaire -
Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
Charles Baudelaire
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire -
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire -
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire -
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire -
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
Charles Baudelaire
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La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.
Charles Baudelaire -
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliersLaissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symbolesQui l’observent avec des regards familiers.
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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.
Charles Baudelaire