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Charles Baudelaire

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Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"
"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected."
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."
"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"