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Which Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
- There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
- 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…
- 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 which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
- Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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