Charles Baudelaire
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“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.” -Charles Baudelaire
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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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“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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“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.” -Charles Baudelaire
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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.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.” -Charles Baudelaire
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