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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREEverything 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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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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What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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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.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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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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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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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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