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• Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Believe

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

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• My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Travel, Men

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• Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Noble, Taste

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• Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sight, Monsters, Might

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• Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

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• How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,
  To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
  As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,
  Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Memories, Winter, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Norman R. Shapiro (2000). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal: A Bilingual Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Bored, France, Conformity

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Drawing, Mind, Genuine

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• I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Stars, Spring

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• Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Country, Men, Cities

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

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• Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Divine, Stills, Ifs

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• When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Cat, Needs, Speak

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• Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Night, Soul

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• I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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• Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Like Family, Baudelaire

  David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr

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• Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Beast, Plus

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• Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Attitude, Sleep

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Epic, Philosopher, Poet

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

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• I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moving, Thinking, House

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• You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Clouds, Feels Just

  Charles Baudelaire (1971). “Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as Means of Expanding Individuality”

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• Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Flower, Men

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Joy

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Void

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• Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Giving, Body

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage a' Cythe' re'.

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