Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 5

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Church, Wanted

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ancient, Corruption, Ancient Times

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Expression, Currents

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Thinking, Color, Clothes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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