Charles Baudelaire
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.