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Charles Baudelaire Inspirational Quotes (197)

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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
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The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.
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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.
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When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
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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.
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A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
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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?
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
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Everything for me becomes allegory
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I am the vampire at my own veins.
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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