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Charles Baudelaire Inspirational Quotes (197)

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It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
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Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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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.
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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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.
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The People adore authority.
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A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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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.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
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So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
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Through the Unknown, we'll find the New
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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.
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There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
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