Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 3

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• The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, World, Misunderstanding

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

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• Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Photographer, Copiers

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• The People adore authority.

  Charles Baudelaire

  People, Authority, Adore

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Procrastination, Long, Tasks

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

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• I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hysteria, Pleasure, Terror

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Common Folk, Common Sense

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• Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Indispensable, Condiments, Strangeness

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.206, CUP Archive

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• A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Mouths, Silent

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• Music fathoms the sky.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sky, Fathom

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

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• In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Procrastination, Risk

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

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• Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

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  Charles Baudelaire (1955). “The Flowers of Evil”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• We are all born marked for evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Evil, Literature, Born

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

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• Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Names, Goal

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• Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drunk, Alcohol, Funny Alcohol

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• What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Simple, Profound, Portraits

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• The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hanging On, Taste, Pleasure

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  To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Men, Spirit

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Causes, Glimpse

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• There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Beauty, Way

  Charles Baudelaire (1964). “Baudelaire as a literary critic”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

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• There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Men, Two

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Lonely, Heart

  "Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

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• Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Choices, Feelings, Way

  "The 'Reasonabilists' of Berkeley" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. February 04, 2017.

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• For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Expression, Currents

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• An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Pleasure, Deformity

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