Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 14

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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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• Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hideous

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• Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, I shall not know the highest bliss, And give my name to the abyss Which waits to claim me as its own.

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  Stars, Eye, Heart

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• France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

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  Use, France, Facts

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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• Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

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  Dream, Ambition, Miracle

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• In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

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  Wine, Order, Drunk

  Charles Baudelaire, “Get Drunk”

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• My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.

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  Summer, Sweet, Air

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• Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Men, Vices

  "Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude".

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• It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

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  Perfect, Would Be, Satanic

  "Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

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• Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

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  Hands, Lines, Lasts

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• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

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• By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Knowledge, Men, Primitive Man

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• Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

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  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

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  Writing, Proud, Pox

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.

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  Souvenirs, Plus

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

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  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

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  Despair, Amusement, Boring

  1887 Mon coeur mis a' nu, pt.18.

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• My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

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  Artist, Past, Historical Value

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

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  Pain, Unique, Hell

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• Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

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  Men, Confusing, Speech

  Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.19, Oxford Paperbacks

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• 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.

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  Eye, Cities, Monsters

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• A Dandy does nothing.

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  Doe, Dandy, Idleness

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

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  Home, Study, Horror

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

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  Happiness, Humble, Pride

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

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• It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

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  Regret, Men, Rights

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