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Charles Baudelaire


French
April 9, 1821
Poet
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.


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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!


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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.


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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.


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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.


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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.


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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.


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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.


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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.


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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.


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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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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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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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