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

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most...

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most...

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish,...

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish,...

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up...

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up...

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more...

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more...

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive...

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive...

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.