| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5885 |
| QUOTATION: | The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet. repr. In The Mirror of Art, ed. Jonathan Mayne (1955). “Salon of 1846,” sct. 18, published in Curiosités Esthétiques (1868). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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