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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination Picture Quote #1

And over your unconsecrated head you’ll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year; Picture Quote #1

If the word doesn’t exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist Picture Quote #1

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty Picture Quote #1

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze Picture Quote #1

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window Picture Quote #1

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Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer’s stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn Picture Quote #1

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare Picture Quote #1

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it Picture Quote #1

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually Picture Quote #1

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end Picture Quote #1

Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue Picture Quote #1

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Alas! Man’s vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite Picture Quote #1

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist! Picture Quote #1

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror Picture Quote #1

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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery Picture Quote #1

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil Picture Quote #1

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air Picture Quote #1

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness... Love should be love Picture Quote #1

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling Picture Quote #1

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa Picture Quote #1

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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) And over your unconsecrated head you’ll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year; (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) If the word doesn’t exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer’s stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Within the bottle’s depths, the wine’s soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Alas! Man’s vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist! (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) 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 Quotes) Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness... Love should be love (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) 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 Quotes) If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) 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 Quotes) Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait (Charles Baudelaire Quotes) 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 Quotes) The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)

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