Quote by Charles Baudelaire
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism sh

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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France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire

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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

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The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. – Anon.

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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