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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Charles Baudelaire
Hate, Passion, Doe
Charles Baudelaire (1955). “The Flowers of Evil”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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.

Charles Baudelaire
Believe, Passion, Thinking

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Passion, Art Is

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Charles Baudelaire
Passion, Determined
"'L'Oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix' ('The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix')". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1863.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

Charles Baudelaire
Passion, Worship, Primitive
"Journaux intimes". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1887.

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