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• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Common Folk, Common Sense

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• Everything for me becomes allegory

  Charles Baudelaire

  Allegory

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• The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, World, Misunderstanding

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

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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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• My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Beast, My Heart

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.115, OUP Oxford

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Butterfly, Bird, Together

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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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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• A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Cute, Marriage

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

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  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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

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• I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hysteria, Pleasure, Terror

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Procrastination, Risk

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

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• The People adore authority.

  Charles Baudelaire

  People, Authority, Adore

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Echoes, Sound, Perfume

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Correspondances'.

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• It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Cat, Ideas

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Choices, Feelings, Way

  "The 'Reasonabilists' of Berkeley" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. February 04, 2017.

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Math, Noble

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

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• We are all born marked for evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Evil, Literature, Born

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hanging On, Taste, Pleasure

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• Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Men, Order

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.398, CUP Archive

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• That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Essentials, Astonishment, Unexpected

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Space, Profound, Moments

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• The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

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  Wish, Able, Privilege

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• Discover day to day excitement.

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  Excitement, Day To Day

  Charles Baudelaire (1950). “My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings”, Haskell House Pub Limited

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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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• The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Men, Spirit

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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