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«This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.»
«Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses»
«If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.»
«Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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contingent, contingent on, fleeting, immovable, modernity, One half, transient
«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.»
«The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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digest, digests, images, pasture, relative, signs, storehouse, storehouses, transform, visible
«True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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gas, in turn, lie in, original sin, reduction, reductions, steam, steaming, tables, traces
«Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.»
«The world only goes round by misunderstanding.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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misunderstanding, misunderstandings, round, The World is Round
«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.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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oppressed, oppressing, rebellious, resigned, situate, situated, situating
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