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• 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

  Brother, Progress, Enlightenment

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• I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God?
  The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hysteria, Seductive, Devil

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Order, Calm, Voluptuous

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• The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ants, Generations, Holes

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Winter, Bored

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• To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Views, Political, Criticism

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

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• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Women, Philosophical

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Insanity, Mind

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• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Fleeting, Half

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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• Wine transforms moles into eagles.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Eagles, Moles

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• The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Love Is

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Narcissus, Metals

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

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• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Literature, Imitating Others

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

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• Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Believe, Ballet

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• Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Bourgeois

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• I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Laughter, Hate, Heart

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• It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Nice, Being Nice, Victim

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• 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

  Crush, Beer, Earth

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Boredom, Boring, Amusing

  "My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings".

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• For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Literature, Fifty

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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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• I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon, Cemetery

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• On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Self, Centralization

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