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Own Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the…
- All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and…
- 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…
- The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish…
- 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…
- Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the…
- And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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