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Other Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
- Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
- Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory…
- There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to…
- 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…
- These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and…
- Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
- There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan
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