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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Charles Baudelaire

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Crowd Poet Solitude
Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Create Imagination Monde World
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Found New People World
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.
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Cat Glass Music Window
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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Love Need People Self
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Appetite Biography Immense
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Men Music Travel
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Able Privilege Wish
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Attitude Dream Sleep
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Give Mean Reason
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Art Contingent Element Half
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Mouth Silent Sweet

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

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