Quote by Charles Baudelaire
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. – Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – 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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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. – Robert E. Howard

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. – Francis Bacon

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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing mens clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am. – Madeleine Albright

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal

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