Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 12

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• It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Proud, Satisfaction, Pleasure

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• Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Insanity

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• In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Strong, Cat

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• It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

  Charles Baudelaire

  Devil, Strings

  Charles Baudelaire (1961). “Baudelaire: Introduced and edited by Francis Scarfe, with plain prose translations of each poem”

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• Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

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• A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hate, Sleep, Blood

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• Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mold, Allegory, Ifs

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• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Honesty, Business, Financial

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• A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Passion, Art Is

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• Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Genius

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there Up there the wonderful clouds!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mother, Country, Brother

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

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• Genius is childhood recalled at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Genius

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• Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hate, Men, Two

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

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• Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Doubt, Age

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.102, CUP Archive

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• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Men, Long

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

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Useless

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Fall, Winter

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• And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Drunk, Madness

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• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Ambition, Goal

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• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Aristocracy, Literature, Ethics

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• Eternal superiority of the Dandy.
  What is the Dandy?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eternal, Dandy, Superiority

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Beautiful, Looks

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• Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Drinking, Flower

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.14, David R. Godine Publisher

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• L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Provinces

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• A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,
  Sweet bath, suavely
  Scented with ointments,
  
  has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Hair, Hands

  "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.

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