How convenient it is to declare...

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.

- Charles Baudelaire

Selected Writings on Art and Literature

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Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.

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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

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