Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 6

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• To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, World, Tongue

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

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• The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

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  Believe, Literature, Crowds

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• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Objectivity, Literature, Moral

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• Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

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  Art, Destiny, Evil

  "Le peintre de la vie moderne". Book by Charles Baudelaire. Chapter 11, 1863.

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• The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

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  Sleep, Mirrors, Sublime

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Simple, Years

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• There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Warrior, Three, May

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

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  Men, Water, Secret

  Charles Baudelaire (1971). “Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as Means of Expanding Individuality”

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• To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

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  Practice, Sorcery, Language

  "L'art Romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

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  Drunk, Earth, Break

  Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

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• Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.

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  Men, Greatness, Order

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

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  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

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  Heart, Cities, Paris

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• Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

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  Literature, Adultery, Sexuality

  Journaux intimes (1887) 93

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• Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

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  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

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  Artist, Past, Reality

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• Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

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  Mean, Giving, Reason

  "Salon de 1845". Book by Charles Baudelaire, May 1845.

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• Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

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  Photography, Art, Believe

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

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• However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

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  Unity, May, Human Nature

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• I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

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  Pleasure

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

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  Stars, Pride, Water

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• The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

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  Lying, Immortality, Proof

  "Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers".

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• The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

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  Knowing, Sake

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• Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

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  Ingredients, Strangeness

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