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There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Charles Baudelaire

Inspirational, Weakness, Succeed

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If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Charles Baudelaire

Firsts, Ifs

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

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Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Baudelaire

Art, Philosophical, Imagination

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The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Charles Baudelaire

Horror Genre, New Day, Devil

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

Artist, Pleasure, Deformity

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

War, Party, Book

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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

Charles Baudelaire

Beautiful, Care, I Care

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Charles Baudelaire

Men, Hands, Honor

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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Charles Baudelaire

Love, Sex, World

Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

Respect, Soldier, Three

"Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Charles Baudelaire

Time, Art, Work

Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

Lying, Civilization, Doe

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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Charles Baudelaire

Ancient, Corruption, Ancient Times

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For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Expression, Currents

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

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Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

Charles Baudelaire

Love, Simplicity, Should

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I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

Charles Baudelaire

Love, Clouds, Lovely

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If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Charles Baudelaire

Knives, Poison, Arson

Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

Dream, Reality, Common Sense

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Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

Charles Baudelaire

Thinking, Color, Clothes

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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

Inspiration, Long, Innovation

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Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Charles Baudelaire

Time, Nature, Flower

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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

Inspirational, Wine, Drunk

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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Charles Baudelaire

Vision, Looks, Window

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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

Life, Lonely, Heart

"Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

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Born: April 9, 1821
Died: August 31, 1867
Occupation: Poet
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