Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a li

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. – Charles Baudelaire

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty
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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Criticism
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Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary. – Thomas Middleton

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Dreams

I believe in everything until its disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if its in your mind. Whos to say that dreams and nightmares arent as real as the here and now? – John Lennon

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Dreams

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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Dreams

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. – Cleveland Abbe

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Dreams

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I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsys actual singing voice. That was my way into that character. – Jessica Lange

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I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us. – Sarah Michelle Gellar

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You cant sweep other people off their feet, if you cant be swept off your own. – Clarence Day

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