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Charles Baudelaire

  • Liza Vasilievahas quotedlast year
    hideous Child of Doom

    отвратительное дитя Рока

  • Liza Vasilievahas quotedlast year
    Endeavour hard some grievance from his heart to tear
  • Liza Vasilievahas quotedlast year
    lucid spirit veil

    прозрачная духовная завеса

  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    however much we may like general beauty, which is expressed by the classical poets and artists, we nonetheless make a mistake to neglect particular beauty, the beauty of circumstance, the description of manners.
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    my purpose at this moment is to discuss the painting of our contemporary social scene

    The contemporary as a philosophical idea.

  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    These engravings can be translated into beauty or ugliness: in ugliness they become caricatures; in beauty, antique statues.
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    The past, whilst retaining its ghostly piquancy, will recapture the light and movement of life, and become present.
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    And if to the illustration representing each age he were to add the philosophic thought which that age was mainly preoccupied with or worried by, a thought which the illustration inevitably reflects, he would see what a deep harmony informs all the branches of history, and that, even in the centuries which appear to us the
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    most outrageous and the most confused, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
  • shiraz bukharihas quoted4 months ago
    Beauty is made up, on the one hand, of an element that is eternal and invariable, though to determine how much of it there is is extremely difficult, and, on the other, of a relative circumstantial element, which we may like to call, successively or at one and the same time, contemporaneity, fashion, morality, passion.

    The soul & the form: The truth & the history. Duality.

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