Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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• The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Devil, Doe

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.76

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• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

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• Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ingredients, Strangeness

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• Evil comes up softly like a flower.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Flower, Evil, Come Up

  Charles Baudelaire (1926). “Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry”

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• Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ephemeral, Eternal

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Delight, Multitudes

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Damnation, Delight, Matter

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• 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

  Inspire, Desire, Conquer

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

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• You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Drunk, Wish

  Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

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• One can only forget about time by making use of it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Time, Use

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

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• Nothing can be done except little by little.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Perseverance, Done, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Men, History

  Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”

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• To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Dream, Strong

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• Life swarms with innocent monsters.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Monsters, Innocent, Strange Phenomena

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.101

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• What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Best Love, Love Is, Crime

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• There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Temptation, Virtue

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• The beautiful is always bizarre.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

  Charles Baudelaire (2015). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal”, p.194, Arc Publications

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• There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Giving, Surprise

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.74

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• Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Echoes, Sound, Perfume

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Correspondances'.

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• A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Crime, Should

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• 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

  Time, Mean, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Suffering, Remember, Form

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Always be a poet, even in prose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Poetry, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wish, Able, Privilege

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Literature

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