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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. - Charle

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. – Charles Baudelaire

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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. – Charles Baudelaire

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Soul
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Charles Baudelaire
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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Insults
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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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Poetry
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Beauty
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. – Akhenaton

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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. – Timothy Radcliffe

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Beauty

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. – Christopher Morley

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Beauty

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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