Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 13

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• Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Self, Expression

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• But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Vulgar, Dandy

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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• Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.36, Wesleyan University Press

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• What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Mysterious

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• The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Stupidity

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

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• In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Soul, Perception

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• Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Voyages, Bitter, Tire

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• Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

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  Needs, Divine, Stills

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• La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unique, Evil, Pleasure

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• I lived for a long time under vast porticos
  That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
  And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
  In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fire, Long, Pillars

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• Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Passion, Determined

  "'L'Oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix' ('The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix')". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1863.

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Vices, Taste

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

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• To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Passion, Worship, Primitive

  "Journaux intimes". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1887.

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• We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Government, Veins, Syphilis

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• ...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Results, Identical

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• A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fire, People, Dreamer

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• And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Years, Lament

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.72, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Creating, Church

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

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• La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Grace, Pleasure, Richness

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• You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Walks, Corpses

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.29, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, I shall not know the highest bliss, And give my name to the abyss Which waits to claim me as its own.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Eye, Heart

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• Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hideous

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• France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Use, France, Facts

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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