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 BAUDELAIREThis 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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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 love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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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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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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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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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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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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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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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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