Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThe 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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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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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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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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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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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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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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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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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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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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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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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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