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• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Nature, Self, Voice

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

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• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Objectivity, Literature, Moral

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• Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Essence, Giving

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• Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Imagination, World

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• I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Wind, Wings

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Elements, Half

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• The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Cities, Atmosphere

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

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• Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Nature, Women, Natural

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.21, Wesleyan University Press

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• Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Agony, Depth

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.77, David R. Godine Publisher

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• What is it that brings on these moods of yours?
  Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Ordinary, Alive

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.45, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sleep, Mirrors, Sublime

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• The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Happiness, War

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• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Greatness, Order

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• The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Biographies, Appetite, Immense

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• Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Desire, Bed, Literature

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

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• The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Running, Adventure

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pleasure

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• From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my measure, steadily.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Eye, Cat

  Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.105, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Dog, People

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• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Childhood, Theatre

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

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• In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Men, Order

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• It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Art, Joy

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• I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Years, Thousand

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.76, Wesleyan University Press

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