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• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Evil, Effort

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• Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Inspire, Genius

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• God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Order, Needs

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• 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

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Charles Baudelaire, “Anywhere Out Of The World”

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• Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dancing, Merit, Mysterious

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Winning, Games, What If

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• Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heaven, Doe, Matter

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• Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Heart, Two

  "Baudelaire: a self portrait".

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• A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Cute, Marriage

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• It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

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  Beautiful, Cat, Ideas

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Degrees, Proportion

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

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• Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, Decay, Literature

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• I am the vampire at my own veins.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Vampire, Veins, My Own

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.80, David R. Godine Publisher

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• All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

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  Beauty, Justice, Doe

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Math, Noble

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

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• I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Melancholy, Type

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• An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Oasis, Boredom, Desert

  Charles Baudelaire (2012). “The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Understanding, World, Rounds

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• Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

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  Mean, Men, Order

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.398, CUP Archive

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• One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drinking, Wine, Drunk

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• What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Self, Needs

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

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• Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

  Charles Baudelaire

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

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  Butterfly, Bird, Together

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

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• Discover day to day excitement.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Excitement, Day To Day

  Charles Baudelaire (1950). “My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings”, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• 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

  Essentials, Astonishment, Unexpected

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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