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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

~Charles Baudelaire

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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

~Charles Baudelaire

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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

~Charles Baudelaire

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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

~Charles Baudelaire

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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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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

~Charles Baudelaire

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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

~Charles Baudelaire

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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

~Charles Baudelaire

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9th, 1821

Died: August 31st, 1867

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