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Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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Remembering is only a new form of suffering (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Music fathoms the sky (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
What is art? Prostitution (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
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 (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Always be a poet, even in prose (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind (Charles Baudelaire Quotes)