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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Symbols
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Charles Baudelaire
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art
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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

Category:
Beauty
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Charles Baudelaire
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. – Godfrey Harold Hardy

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Beauty doesnt matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart. – Ann Curry

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Beauty

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether its sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever. – Zachary Levi

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Beauty

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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Beauty

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Ive learned that you shouldnt go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Learning

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. – Ellen Terry

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Imagination

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Adversity

I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

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Storytelling