Charles Baudelaire's Quote - A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything els

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. – Charles Baudelaire

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. – Charles Baudelaire

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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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