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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.

Charles Baudelaire

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
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.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Cat Glass Music Window
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
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Love Need People Self
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Baudelaire Family Like Men
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
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Men Music Travel
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
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

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

Beauty Best Crime Love
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Give Mean Reason
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
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Found New People World
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Portrait Profound Simple
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Childhood Genius
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Ephemeral Eternal Extract

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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