Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 2

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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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• There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Temptation, Virtue

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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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• Always be a poet, even in prose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Poetry, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Charles Baudelaire, “Anywhere Out Of The World”

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Evil, Effort

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heaven, Doe, Matter

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• Everything for me becomes allegory

  Charles Baudelaire

  Allegory

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• What is art? Prostitution.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sarcastic, Art, Prostitution

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, Decay, Literature

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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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• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Understanding, World, Rounds

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• I am the vampire at my own veins.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Vampire, Veins, My Own

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.80, David R. Godine Publisher

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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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• I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Madness

  "Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal".

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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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• 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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• A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Mouths, Silent

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• Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Infinity

  "Salon de 1859". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1859.

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• When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love You, Heart, Mean

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