Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men
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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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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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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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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.
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God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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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.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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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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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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