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Charles Baudelaire

La volupte unique et supre” me de l’amour g|”t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
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Evil Pleasure Unique
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 irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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Beauty Best Crime Love
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
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Attitude Dream Sleep
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.
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Appetite Biography Immense
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
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Astonishment Essential Unexpected
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
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Agony Depth Heart
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
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Give Mean Reason
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Men Music Travel
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
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Believe Men Suffer
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Found New People World
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
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Cities Country Men
Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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Create Imagination Monde World
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Able Privilege Wish

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