All Charles Baudelaire Quotes
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
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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.
Charles Baudelaire
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Charles Baudelaire
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
Charles Baudelaire
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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Charles Baudelaire
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