Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is d

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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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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The cannon thunders… limbs fly in all directions… one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice… its Humanity in search of happiness. – Charles Baudelaire

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The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. – Charlotte Smith

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Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? – Sara Teasdale

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. – Paulo Coelho

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