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Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Charles Baudelaire

Latin, Dark, Dust

Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.165, David R. Godine Publisher

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I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

Charles Baudelaire

Moon, Long, Worms

Charles Baudelaire, “Spleen (Ii)”

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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Charles Baudelaire

Love, Men, Poetry

Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

Literature, Infinity, Infinite

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

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Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

Charles Baudelaire

Dream, World, Action

1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre'.

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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Charles Baudelaire

Forever, Too Much, Impossible

Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Charles Baudelaire

Dream, Reality, Fleeting

Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

Charles Baudelaire

Love You, Heart, Mean

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As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

Charles Baudelaire

Artist, Technique, Methodology

Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.50, CUP Archive

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...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

Charles Baudelaire

Flames, Blood, Skins

Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Charles Baudelaire

Proud, Satisfaction, Pleasure

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

Charles Baudelaire

Believe, Literature, Crowds

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Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Charles Baudelaire

Wind, Wings, Insanity

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In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

Charles Baudelaire

Sweet, Strong, Cat

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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Charles Baudelaire

Fashion, Mind, Desire

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It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Charles Baudelaire

Devil, Strings

Charles Baudelaire (1961). “Baudelaire: Introduced and edited by Francis Scarfe, with plain prose translations of each poem”

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The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

Charles Baudelaire

Running, Men, Squares

Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

Charles Baudelaire

Summer, Morning, Laughter

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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

Art, Cheer, Mind

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

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In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

Charles Baudelaire

Art, Thinking, People

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A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

Charles Baudelaire

Hate, Sleep, Blood

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Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Charles Baudelaire

Mold, Allegory, Ifs

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Honesty, Business, Financial

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Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words!

Charles Baudelaire

Dream, Desire, Action

"Le Gouffre". Poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1862.

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A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Charles Baudelaire

Children, Drunk, Childhood

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Born: April 9, 1821
Died: August 31, 1867
Occupation: Poet
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