Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 2

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• Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Heart, Two

  "Baudelaire: a self portrait".

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• Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Inspire, Genius

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• Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Literature

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• Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Winning, Games, What If

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• Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heaven, Doe, Matter

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• We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Degrees, Proportion

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Indispensable, Condiments, Strangeness

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.206, CUP Archive

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• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Evil, Effort

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• Life swarms with innocent monsters.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Monsters, Innocent, Strange Phenomena

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.101

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• Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Men, History

  Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”

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• Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

  Charles Baudelaire

  Charles Baudelaire (1955). “The Flowers of Evil”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Work, Poor

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

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• I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Melancholy, Type

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• The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Want, Produce

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

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• Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drunk, Alcohol, Funny Alcohol

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• The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Prayer, Sleep, Men

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• The beautiful is always bizarre.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

  Charles Baudelaire (2015). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal”, p.194, Arc Publications

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• An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Oasis, Boredom, Desert

  Charles Baudelaire (2012). “The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drinking, Wine, Drunk

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• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, Decay, Literature

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• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Understanding, World, Rounds

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• No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Procrastination, Long, Tasks

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Justice, Doe

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• There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Men, Two

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Mouths, Silent

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