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Charles Baudelaire

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Beauty Best Crime Love
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Appetite Biography Immense
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
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
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Mouth Silent Sweet
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Evil Pleasure Unique
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Love Need People Self
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Attitude Dream Sleep
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Portrait Profound Simple
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Baudelaire Family Like Men
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Able Privilege Wish
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Art Contingent Element Half
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
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Ephemeral Eternal Extract
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Art Born Criticism

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