• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet 1821-1867
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. positively
2. satisfies
3. monsters
4. because
5. nothing
6. trivial

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. by : Charles Baudelaire

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