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Charles Baudelaire

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
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
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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Baudelaire Family Like Men
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet
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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Believe Men Suffer
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Found New People World
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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Evil Pleasure Unique
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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Appetite Biography Immense
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
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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Attitude Dream Sleep
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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Crowd Poet Solitude
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Men Music Travel
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius
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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism

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