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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREDrowsing, 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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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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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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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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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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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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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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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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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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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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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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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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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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