Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 5

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• Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Thinking, Color, Clothes

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• Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

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  Love, Men, Occupation

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

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  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

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  Church, Wanted

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• The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

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  Work, Want, Produce

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

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• The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

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  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  "Selected Poems".

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• Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

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  Dream, Work, Poor

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

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• Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

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  Strong, Cat, Pride

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• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

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  Inspirational, Wine, Drunk

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• All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

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  Shops, Visible, Universe

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• Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

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  Time, Nature, Flower

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• He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

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  Vision, Looks, Window

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• Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

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  Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

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• There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

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  Nature, Action, Mysterious

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.38

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• I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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  Men, Hands, Honor

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• To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

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  Home, World, Tongue

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

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• Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

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  Art, Philosophical, Imagination

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

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  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

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  Literature, Adultery, Sexuality

  Journaux intimes (1887) 93

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

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  Work, Simple, Years

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• However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

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  Unity, May, Human Nature

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• Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

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  Spiritual, Art, Mean

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

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• Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

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  Heart, Miserable, Has Beens

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• So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

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  Drunk, Earth, Break

  Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

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• To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

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  Men, Important, Saint

  "The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

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