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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
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Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
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There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
Charles Baudelaire
Wine transforms moles into eagles.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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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
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
Charles Baudelaire
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.
Charles Baudelaire
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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Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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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.
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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
Charles Baudelaire
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
Charles Baudelaire
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous but we do not notice it.
Charles Baudelaire
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
Charles Baudelaire
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
