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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”

Charles Baudelaire · Beauty

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Charles Baudelaire

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

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