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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.

Charles Baudelaire

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Portrait Profound Simple
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
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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Cities Country Men
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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Love Need People Self
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Men Music Travel
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
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
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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Ephemeral Eternal Extract
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Crowd Poet Solitude
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Believe Men Suffer
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Able Privilege Wish
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Atmosphere City Life
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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Baudelaire Family Like Men
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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Beauty Best Crime Love
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
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Childhood Genius

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