What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRENations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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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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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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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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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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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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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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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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Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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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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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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