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«Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Progress
| Keywords:
ambitious, instinctive, meeting place
«Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!»
«Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend. It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplice, accomplices, charming, Here is, stealthy, The Accomplice, tread
«To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.»
«What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.»
«There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.»
«I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.»
«It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
«Thank you. You have shown me the way back to myself.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
«I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
card, gambled, impalpable, insouciance, mislaid, stroll, strolled, visiting, visiting card
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