Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 15

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• There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Baby, Doe

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Evil, Joy

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

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• The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Time, Aquariums

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

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• Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Mirrors, He Man

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• If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Hypocrite

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• If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Ideas, Water

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Cat, Glasses

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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