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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

Topics: Additional Arms Being Being Human Dance Dancing Everything Hidden Human Legs Merit Music Mysterious Palpable Poetry Reveal

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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

Topics: Art Arts Aspiration Available Color Every Expressed Infinite Intimacy Means Modern Modern Art Romanticism Say Spirituality Towards Word

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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Agree Each Ill Luck Misunderstanding Never Other People Understood Universal Would

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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Goes Misunderstanding Only Round World

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Barely Beauty Conceive Melancholy Type Which I Can

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Book Company Counselor Counselors Garden Multitude Party Way

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Music fathoms the sky.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Music Sky

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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Memories More Old Than Thousand Thousand Years Were Years

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Beyond Everything Immortality Insatiable Lies Life Living Most Our Proof Reveals Thirst Which

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Among Artist Express First He Man Men Must Oppressed Order Rebellious Resigned World

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9th, 1821

Died: August 31st, 1867

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