Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREWhat is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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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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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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What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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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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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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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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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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Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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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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