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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

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Inspiration comes of working every day. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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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

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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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