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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
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.
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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.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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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.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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