Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 10

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• 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

  Country, Men, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Cat, Needs, Speak

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• I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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• Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Like Family, Baudelaire

  David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr

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• 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

  Heart, Beast, Plus

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• Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Attitude, Sleep

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• You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Clouds, Feels Just

  Charles Baudelaire (1971). “Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as Means of Expanding Individuality”

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Epic, Philosopher, Poet

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Void

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• I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moving, Thinking, House

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• The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

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  Men, Thoughtful, Joy

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Giving, Body

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage a' Cythe' re'.

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• My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Progress, Enlightenment

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God?
  The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hysteria, Seductive, Devil

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• La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

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  Order, Calm, Voluptuous

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• The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ants, Generations, Holes

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• A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Drunk, Childhood

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

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  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

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  Fate, Winter, Bored

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• To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Views, Political, Criticism

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

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  Stars, Women, Philosophical

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Insanity, Mind

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• This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Enemy

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• The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stupidity, Lazy, Talent

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