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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.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Appetite Biography Immense
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
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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Crowd Poet Solitude
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
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
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Cities Country Men
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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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Baudelaire Family Like Men
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet
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
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Found New People World
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Able Privilege Wish

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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