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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRELa 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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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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Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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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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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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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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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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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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