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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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. – Charles Baudelaire

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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Id like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesnt matter, but it doesnt hurt. – Kirsten Dunst

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. – Havelock Ellis

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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness. – Ossie Davis

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