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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 have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. – Dita Von Teese

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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. – Michelangelo

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Beauty is grace and confidence. Ive learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. – Lindsay Lohan

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

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