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Charles Baudelaire

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
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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Crowd Poet Solitude
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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Art Contingent Element Half
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Found New People World
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
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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Beauty Best Crime Love
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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Love Need People Self
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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
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
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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Appetite Biography Immense
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
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
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet

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