QUOTES by Charles Baudelaire
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"Scent, sound or sight, beneficent, malign – Who cares if you’re a blessing or a curse, So long as you bring light,"
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"Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts, Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart"
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"The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart)."
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"And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year;"
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"Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!"
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"The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!"
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"Ant swarming City City full of dreams Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve"
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"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
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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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"I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so."
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"I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach"
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"Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long."
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"But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?"
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"Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!"
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"Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people."
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"Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing."
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"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."
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"I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know."
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"I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy."
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"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished."
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"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."
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"Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices."
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"And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst."
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"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."
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"The Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love"
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"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"
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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry."
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"So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk."
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"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."
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"La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beaut� Luxe, calme et volupt� There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure."
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"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom"
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"Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage."
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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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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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"It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not."
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