To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

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

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

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of...

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of...

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it...

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it...

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality,...

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality,...

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.

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...

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

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

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the...

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the...

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...

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.

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...

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art,...

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art,...

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies...

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies...

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of...

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of...