Quote by Charles Baudelaire
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire

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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. – Roy Ayers

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Beauty without expression is boring. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ive just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasnt a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. Shes one of those life-affirming characters. – Sophie Thompson

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I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better. – Hayden Panettiere

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