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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. – Charles Baudelaire

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. – Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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Taste is the feminine of genius. – Lord Edward Fitzgerald

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