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Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867 / Paris / France)
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Baudelaire was born in Paris, France in 1821. His father, a senior civil servant and amateur artist, died during Baudelaire's childhood in 1827. The f .. more >>
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  ''There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.''
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Samuel Cramer, in La Fanfarlo (1847), trans. 1986.
 
  To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by ...
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Artificial Paradise (1860).
 
  ''How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.''
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Samuel Cramer, in La Fanfarlo (1847), trans. 1986.
 
  ''In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.''
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Artificial Paradise, The Poem of Haschish, V. Moral (1860).
 
  ''We have psychologized like the insane, who make their insanity greater by striving to understand it.''
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. Samuel Cramer, in La Fanfarlo (1847), trans. 1986. On poets of his generation.
 

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