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Art is an infinitely precious ...

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

You are sitting and smoking; y...

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Dancing is poetry with arms an...

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is easy to understand why t...

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

How bittersweet it is, on wint...

How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Do you remember the sight we s...

Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Passion I hate, and spirit doe...

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There are women who inspire yo...

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

An oasis of horror in a desert...

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There are but three beings wor...

There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Even when she walks one would ...

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is the greatest art of the ...

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Genius is nothing more or less...

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

That which is not slightly dis...

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity Ђ' that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

If rape or arson, poison or th...

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

If the word doesn't exist, inv...

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Good sense tells us that earth...

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Above my cradle loomed the boo...

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A multitude of small delights ...

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Nations, like families, have g...

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....