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Forest, I fear you! in my ruined heart
your roaring awakens the same agony
as...
– Charles Baudelaire (via wastrelle)
THE SADNESS OF THE MOON
by Charles Baudelaire
THE Moon more indolently...
– http://www.archive.org/
from Full text of “Baudelaire, his prose and poetry”
(via mllechristina)
When the sky appears in pain
and sunset no more than a wound
what are the...
– Charles Baudelaire (via wastrelle)
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
– Charles Baudelaire (via substancem)
Baudelaire - Au Lecteur (with English translation)
princessejuliedenetzach:
La sottise, l’erreur, le péché, la lésine, Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps, Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords, Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine. Nos péchés sont têtus, nos repentirs sont lâches ; Nous nous faisons payer grassement nos aveux, Et nous rentrons gaiement dans le chemin bourbeux, Croyant par de vils pleurs laver toutes nos...
"The Stranger"
philistine:
Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love the best, your father, your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know under what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and...
Charles Baudelaire, A une passante.
awesomefrench:
La rue assourdissante autour de moi hurlait. Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse, Une femme passa, d’une main fastueuse Soulevant, balançant le feston et l’ourlet ; Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue. Moi, je buvais, crispé comme un extravagant, Dans son oeil, ciel livide où germe l’ouragan, La douceur qui fascine et le plaisir qui tue. Un éclair… puis la...
You will say now, of course, that I dreamed; but not so. What I saw, what I...
– Edgar Allan Poe (via black-wolves)
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Uns governam o mundo, outros são o mundo.
– Bernardo Soares (heterônimo de Fernando Pessoa)
A cada dia que vivo, mais me convenço de que o desperdício da vida está no amor...
– Drummond (via autofagico)
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Florence Nightingale Graham (Elizabeth Arden), a...
Florence Nightingale Graham, who went by the business name Elizabeth Arden, was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States.
Arden was born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada in 1966, where she lived until the age of 24. In 1909, Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto. She then joined her elder brother in New York City, working briefly...