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Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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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 Quotes)
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The Devil’s hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things! (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
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. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn’t even need to exist (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
How bittersweet it is, on winter’s night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Everything, alas, is an abyss, ÂÂ- actions, desires, dreams, words! (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Always be a poet, even in prose (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
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 Quotes)
What is art? Prostitution (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)