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Quotes from Le peintre de la vie moderne — Charles Baudelaire

1821–1867 France

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Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill.

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)

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

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)

Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the faculties of manhood and with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material.

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)

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