Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.Charles Baudelaire
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
Charles Baudelaire
Music fathoms the sky.
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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
Charles Baudelaire
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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