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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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• 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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• There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Beauty, Way

  Charles Baudelaire (1964). “Baudelaire as a literary critic”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

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• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Good Luck, Agreement, People

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• Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Photographer, Copiers

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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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• What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Simple, Profound, Portraits

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• Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

  Charles Baudelaire

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  To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• Inspiration comes of working every day.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Imagination

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• Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Amusing, Know How

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• Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Names, Goal

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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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• It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Causes, Glimpse

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• Music fathoms the sky.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sky, Fathom

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

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• The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, History, Dueling

  "Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud".

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• The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  "Selected Poems".

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• An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiring, Art, Dual Nature

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• Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Occupation

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• We revel in the laxness of the path we take.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Path

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• The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Habit, Duty

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

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• There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Nature, Action, Mysterious

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.38

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• The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Imagination, Pastures

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• Wine transforms moles into eagles.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Eagles, Moles

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• Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Church, Wanted

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