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Great Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- Progress, this great heresy of decay.
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
- Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
- Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.
- Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of…
- Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental…
- What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
- Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
- Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed…
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