Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Childhood
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
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What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
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