Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terro

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

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Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary. – Charles Baudelaire

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. – John Keats

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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. – Sallust

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Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? – Rosalind Russell

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How goodness heightens beauty! – Milan Kundera

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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. – John Burroughs

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