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He possessed the logic of all...

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A book is a garden, a party, ...

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Good sense tells us that eart...

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Within the bottle's depths, t...

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Happy is the man who can with...

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

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Art is an infinitely precious...

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Do you remember the sight we ...

Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Nations, like families, have ...

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It's the devil who pulls the ...

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Nothing is as tedious as the ...

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

If the word doesn't exist, in...

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is one of the prodigious p...

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Drowsing, they take the noble...

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I think I would be happy in t...

I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The being who, for most men, ...

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Imagination is the queen of t...

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

As for techniques and process...

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The solitary and thoughtful s...

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

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You are sitting and smoking; ...

You are sitting and smoking; you believe that you are sitting in your pipe, and that your pipe is smoking you; you are exhaling yourself in bluish clouds. You feel just fine in this position, and only one thing gives you worry or concern: how will you ever be able to get out of your pipe?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

If wine were to disappear fro...

If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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