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• But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Vulgar, Dandy

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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• I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Seeds, Knows

  Robert Lowell, Charles Baudelaire (1968). “The Voyage: And Other Versions of Poems”

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• Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Voyages, Bitter, Tire

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• the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moving, Hands, Devil

  Charles Baudelaire (2015). “Poems”, p.12, Everyman's Library

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Criticism, Born

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

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• Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Needs, Divine, Stills

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• That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mediocrity, Reign, Becoming

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• Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

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• I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Gambling, Soul, Nuisance

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• Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Self, Expression

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• Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Hideous, Idleness

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• What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love Is, Men, Giving

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Mysterious

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• I lived for a long time under vast porticos
  That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
  And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
  In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fire, Long, Pillars

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• Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Passion, Determined

  "'L'Oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix' ('The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix')". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1863.

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• La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unique, Evil, Pleasure

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• And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Years, Lament

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.72, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Vices, Taste

  Charles Baudelaire (1926). “Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry”

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• Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Creating, Church

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• ...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Results, Identical

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• La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Grace, Pleasure, Richness

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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• To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Passion, Worship, Primitive

  "Journaux intimes". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1887.

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• We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Government, Veins, Syphilis

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