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 BAUDELAIREModernity 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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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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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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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.
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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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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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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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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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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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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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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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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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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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