Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 8

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• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Apathy, Satisfaction

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• The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Soul, Ambitious

  Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”

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• The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Horror Genre, New Day, Devil

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• Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Destiny, Evil

  "Le peintre de la vie moderne". Book by Charles Baudelaire. Chapter 11, 1863.

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• The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Acts Of Love, Torture

  "Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

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• Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Girl, Pearls, Nudity

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.173, OUP Oxford

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• There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Respect, Soldier, Three

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Light, Knowing

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

  Charles Baudelaire

  Poverty, Sickness, Melancholy

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

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• Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hate, Passion, Doe

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

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• The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Education, Art, Children

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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Literature, Taste

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

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• Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Giving, Reason

  "Salon de 1845". Book by Charles Baudelaire, May 1845.

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• Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Blessed, Suffering

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• There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Practice, Sorcery, Verbs

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Men, Suffering

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Civilization, Tables, Sin

  Journaux Intimes "Mon CoeurMis a Nu" no. 59 (1887)

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• There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Philosophy, Real

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• The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Cities, Paris

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• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Mean, Men

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

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• The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Immortality, Proof

  "Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers".

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• Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Food, Men, Two

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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• The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.

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  Beauty, Fashion, Men

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• A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Party, Book, Garden

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