Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 3

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• What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Self, Needs

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

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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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• 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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• All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Shops, Visible, Universe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, World, Misunderstanding

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Happiness, War

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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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• 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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• Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Cheer, Mind

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Discover day to day excitement.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Excitement, Day To Day

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

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wish, Able, Privilege

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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