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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth Century. He was also an important critic, and translator. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

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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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"All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind."

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"I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card."

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"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."

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"As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work."

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"Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form."

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"There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite."

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

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"The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute."

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