Baudelaire

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“What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory—of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)