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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