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Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

Charles Baudelaire

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Men Music Travel
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Love Need People Self
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
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
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Able Privilege Wish
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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Baudelaire Family Like Men
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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Crowd Poet Solitude
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
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
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius
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
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
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

Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

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