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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Charles Baudelaire

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Art Born Criticism
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Give Mean Reason
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Attitude Dream Sleep
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
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
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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Atmosphere City Life
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Love Need People Self
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
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 could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Crowd Poet Solitude
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
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Mouth Silent Sweet
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Beauty Best Crime Love
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Baudelaire Family Like Men
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

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