"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
-Charles Baudelaire
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"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.“
-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."
-Charles Baudelaire
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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."
-Charles Baudelaire
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"Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."
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"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
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-Karl Kraus
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