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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
— Charles Baudelaire
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
— Charles Baudelaire
Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.
— Charles Baudelaire
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
— Charles Baudelaire
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
— Charles Baudelaire
What is art? Prostitution.
— Charles Baudelaire
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
— Charles Baudelaire
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
— Charles Baudelaire
We are all born marked for evil.
— Charles Baudelaire
So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.
— Charles Baudelaire
I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?
— Charles Baudelaire
The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.
— Charles Baudelaire
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
— Charles Baudelaire
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
— Charles Baudelaire
Only when we drink poison are we well.
— Charles Baudelaire
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
— Charles Baudelaire
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
— Charles Baudelaire
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
— Charles Baudelaire
A Dandy does nothing.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.
— Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
— Charles Baudelaire
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
— Charles Baudelaire
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
— Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
— Charles Baudelaire
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
— Charles Baudelaire