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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Creditor Each Extraterrestrial Fifty Letter Lines Received Saved Subject Will Write You

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Art Assign Dare Function Imitating Nature Sterile Who Would

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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

Topics: Common Common Sense Dreams Earth Exist Little Only Reality Sense Tells Things True Us

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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Form Him How Little Man Memory New Once Only Remains Remembering Save Suffering

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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Brother Fellow Hypocrite Reader

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Always Appear Appetite Beauty Centuries Even Foolish Found Immortal Monstrous Most Satisfaction Us Which

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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Any Days Food Go Healthy Man Poetry Two Without

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Cat Claws Glass Hung Love Music Outside Prefer Stick Tail Trying Up Wagner Window I Love

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Always Even Poet Prose

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Atmosphere City Life Marvelous Notice Our Poetic Rich Subjects Though

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9th, 1821

Died: August 31st, 1867

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