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Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- 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.
- The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
- There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
- Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
- To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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