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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life
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"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life"

- Charles Baudelaire

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This quote by Charles Baudelaire talks with the complexity of the human experience. As a toddler, Baudelaire was able to identify the duality of life, the charm as well as the terror that it can bring. He had the ability to recognize the happiness as well as the grief that life can bring, as well as the fact that both of these sensations can exist all at once. This quote speaks with the suggestion that life is a complex as well as ever-changing experience, which it is difficult to experience one feeling without the various other. It is a tip that life has lots of both delight as well as pain, which it is essential to acknowledge as well as value both. Baudelaire's quote is a suggestion that life is a trip, which it is important to welcome both the excellent and also the bad.

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Charles Baudelaire This quote is written / told by Charles Baudelaire between April 9, 1821 and August 31, 1867. He was a famous Poet from France. The author also have 74 other quotes.

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