“Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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