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If I were a psychiatrist, I should advise my patients who suffer from "anguish" to read this poem of Baudelaire's whenever an attack seems imminent. Very gently, they should pronounce Baudelaire's key word, vast. For it is a word that brings calm and unity; it opens up unlimited space. It also teaches us to breathe with the air that rests on the horizon, far from the walls of the chimerical prisons that are the cause of our anguish. It has ..
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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