"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."
― Charles Baudelaire
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Beauty
― Charles Baudelaire
More From Charles Baudelaire
- "The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present."
- "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them."
- "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."
More In Beauty
- "Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."― Aristotle
- "Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."― Richard Cecil
- "Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."― Charles Lamb