Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 4

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• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Good Luck, Agreement, People

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• I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Clouds, Lovely

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• What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Care, I Care

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• Everything for me becomes allegory

  Charles Baudelaire

  Allegory

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• The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Art, Work

  Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• Inspiration comes of working every day.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Imagination

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• Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Amusing, Know How

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• Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Imagination, Infinity

  "Salon de 1859". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1859.

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• The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Prayer, Sleep, Men

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Space, Profound, Moments

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• Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Attitude, Cat

  Charles Baudelaire, “Les Chats (Cats)”

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• If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Firsts, Ifs

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

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Imagination, Pastures

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

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• There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Weakness, Succeed

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• Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Reality

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• My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Beast, My Heart

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.115, OUP Oxford

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• The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Habit, Duty

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

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• I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Madness

  "Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal".

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, History, Towns

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• An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiring, Art, Dual Nature

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• There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspiration, Long, Innovation

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• Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Simplicity, Should

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• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Sex, World

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

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