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«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
adventures, compete, deliver, eighteen, emancipate, emancipated, emancipating, enrich, family business, garret, gluttonous, heroic, immortalize, infamous, papa, precocity, prisoner, run away, sublime, the Son, tower, twelve
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
absolute, abstraction, beauties, contain, creamed, creams, does not exist, element, emotions, eternal, forms, general, manifestation, particular, phenomena, surface, surface of, The Absolute, The Cream, The Eternal, The General, transitory
«I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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any old, a thousand, by memory, If I were a, memories, old, that year, the year after, thousand, were, years
«Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Ambition,
Prose
| Keywords:
lyrical, Movements, musical, poetic, prose, rhyme, rhythm, rhythm and, staccato, supple, The Miracle
«There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.»
«If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Arts and Sciences, functions, Humble servant, in for, natural science, printing, sciences, shorthand, stand in, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, the sciences, The Servant
«Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.»
«Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.»
«A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.»
«The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
captain, Evening Prayer, posting, sentinel, sentinels
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