All Charles Baudelaire Quotes
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Charles Baudelaire
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Charles Baudelaire
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles Baudelaire
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Charles Baudelaire
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire
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Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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