Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Feelings
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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
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Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.
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