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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, becaus

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. – Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. – Charles Baudelaire

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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a womans quality. – Pierre Corneille

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It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. – Frederick Douglass

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Nature is perfect. – William Shatner

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