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Charles Baudelaire Inspirational Quotes (197)

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
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I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
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From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.
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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
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By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
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Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.
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On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
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And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
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A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
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As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
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Wine transforms moles into eagles.
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What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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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.
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