The cannon thunders. . . limbs fly in all directions. . . one can hear the groans of … - Charles Baudelaire

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I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

Charles Baudelaire

The cannon thunders. . . limbs fly in all directions. . . one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice. . . it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Cannon, Funny, Happiness, Performing, Sacrifice, War

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To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

Divine, Dream, Magnificently, Running, Runs, Strong

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

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Nothing can be done except little by little.

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

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