“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Everything considered, work is less boring than
“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the
“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious
“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 of them has to give place.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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I can barely conceive of a type
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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The study of beauty is a duel
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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An artist is an artist only because
“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 time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Category: time
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We are weighed down, every moment, by
“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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