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Charles Baudelaire on Beauty

1821–1867 France

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.

Le Spleen de Paris (1862)

All beauties, like all possible phenomena, have something of the eternal and something of the ephemeral — of the absolute and the particular.

There, all is order and beauty only,
Splendor, peace, and pleasure.

Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Baudelaire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.