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Firsts Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch…
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,…
- On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose…
- As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,…
- A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would…
- 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…
- If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
- Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural…
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