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

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple. – Cate Blanchett

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Doors open because youre beautiful, but I wouldnt cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains. – Tia Carrere

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. – Mary MacLane

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