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Them Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one…
- There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and…
- Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for…
- Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the…
- As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned…
- There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only…
- I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark…
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