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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Charles Baudelaire
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
Charles Baudelaire
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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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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The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to 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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Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
Charles Baudelaire
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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Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
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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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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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A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
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The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
Charles Baudelaire
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
Charles Baudelaire
