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Charles Baudelaire

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
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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Beauty Best Crime Love
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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Baudelaire Family Like Men
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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Love Need People Self
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.
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Art Contingent Element Half
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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Crowd Poet Solitude
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius
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Found New People World
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

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