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Charles Baudelaire quotes: The world progresses only through misunderstanding. The world progresses only through misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Each day we take another step to hell,Descending through the stench, unhorrified Each day we take another step to hell,
Descending through the stench, unhorrified
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Today I felt pass over me / A breath of wind from the wings of madness. Today I felt pass over me / A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace. Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother! Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Through the Unknown, we'll find the New Through the Unknown, we'll find the New
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved. For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently. Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible. Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose? Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I love the clouds ... the clouds that pass by ... over there ... over there ... those lovely clouds! I love the clouds ... the clouds that pass by ... over there ... over there ... those lovely clouds!
Charles Baudelaire quotes: What is art? Prostitution. What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Everything for me becomes allegory. Everything for me becomes allegory.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house? Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?
Charles Baudelaire quotes: This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it. Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household ... Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household ...
Charles Baudelaire quotes: On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there. On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: 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 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.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life. I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse. I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: God is a scandal, - a profitable scandal. God is a scandal, - a profitable scandal.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: An industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art. An industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Remembering is only a new form of suffering. Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness ... Love should be love. Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness ... Love should be love.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long. Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will. Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable. Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Seek not my heart; the beasts have eaten it Seek not my heart; the beasts have eaten it
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it. Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: A Dandy does nothing. A Dandy does nothing.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men. A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future. The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another. Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil. What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I am the vampire at my own veins. I am the vampire at my own veins.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Always be a poet, even in prose. Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery. The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward. No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The People adore authority. The People adore authority.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion). To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion).
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it. Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world. And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air. Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not. It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The mainspring of genius is curiosity. The mainspring of genius is curiosity.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself. There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: We revel in the laxness of the path we take. We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolveslament their fate and yours the livelong year; And over your unconsecrated head
you'll hear the howling wolves
lament their fate and yours the livelong year;
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling. Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The beautiful is always bizarre. The beautiful is always bizarre.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so. I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Only when we drink poison are we well. Only when we drink poison are we well.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Color ... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. Color ... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true. Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Progress, this great heresy of decay. Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Nature ... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. Nature ... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country. Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: The world only goes round by misunderstanding. The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Evil comes up softly like a flower. Evil comes up softly like a flower.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Genius is childhood recalled at will. Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music. My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve Ant swarming City
City full of dreams
Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
Charles Baudelaire quotes: I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: What is love? The need of coming out of one's self. What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.
Charles Baudelaire quotes: Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

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