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.
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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.Charles Baudelaire
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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