| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5886 |
| QUOTATION: | There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet. repr. In The Mirror of Art, ed. Jonathan Mayne (1955). “Salon of 1846,” sct. 2, Curiosités Esthétiques (1868).
Baudelaire may have been recalling a footnote in ch. 110 of Stendhal’s Histoire de la Peinture en Italie: “La beauté est l’expression d’une certaine manière habituelle de chercher le bonheur.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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