All Charles Baudelaire Quotes
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire
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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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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
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