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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.

Charles Baudelaire

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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Art Born Criticism
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet
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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Atmosphere City Life
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
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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Beauty Best Crime Love
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
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Agony Depth Heart
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
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Able Privilege Wish
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 BAUDELAIRE

Cities Country Men
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Astonishment Essential Unexpected
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

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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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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