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Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
- 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.
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
- It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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