Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire Famous Quotes & Sayings
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For every letter of creditors, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you'll be saved.
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?
I love the clouds ... the clouds that pass by ... over there ... over there ... those lovely clouds!
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.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?
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.
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness ... Love should be love.
Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
No man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will be something held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.
Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.
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.
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
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.
There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.
And over your unconsecrated head
you'll hear the howling wolves
lament their fate and yours the livelong year;
you'll hear the howling wolves
lament their fate and yours the livelong year;
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
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.