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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Beauty Habitual Happiness Kinds Many Seeking Ways

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Amusing Boring Considered Everything Less Oneself Than Work

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Anguish Ask Because Better Celebrated Each Full Grants He Individual Itself Knows Language Liberty Long Man Our Own Painter Profoundly Religion Sad Than Universal Very Which

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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Infinite More Than

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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

Topics: Could Creates Fair Family Find Found He His Impossible Just Life Lovely Lover Makes Sex Those Who Whole Women World

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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Inner Inner Voice Nature Nothing Self-Interest Voice

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Also Beauty Being Clothed Derive Due Essential Only Pleasure Present Quality Representation

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Art Being Contingent Eternal Fleeting Half Modernity One Half Other Transient

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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 fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Art Being Changing Constantly Contingent Despised Element Eternal Fugitive Half Make Make Up Modernity Must Neglected One Half Other Transitory Up Which

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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Amusing Boring Considered Despair Everything Inclination Least Less Necessary Oneself Than Work

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9th, 1821

Died: August 31st, 1867

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