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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Charles Baudelaire

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 BAUDELAIRE

Evil Pleasure Unique
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
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Love Need People Self
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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Appetite Biography Immense
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Men Music Travel
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Crowd Poet Solitude
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
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
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
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
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
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Cat Glass Music Window

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

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