"Always be a poet, even in prose."
-Charles Baudelaire
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.“
-Charles Baudelaire
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"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
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"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."
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"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art."
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"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
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"Music fathoms the sky."
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