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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#even #financial #honesty #honesty is #merchant

Inspiration comes of working every day. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#day #every #every day #inspiration #working

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arms #being #being human #dance #dancing

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

#arts #aspiration #available #color #every

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#contradictory #ecstasy #feelings #felt #heart

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#among #even #fact #feels #france

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#break #break up #fallen #form #i

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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