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Above my cradle loomed the boo...

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

If rape or arson, poison or th...

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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

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

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Good sense tells us that earth...

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

That which is not slightly dis...

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity Ђ' that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

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A multitude of small delights ...

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

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Nations, like families, have g...

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

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

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

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

From Satan or from God, what m...

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A silent mouth is sweet to hea...

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

But the true voyagers are only...

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: 'Let's go!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

...and the lamp having at last...

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

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A frenzied passion for art is ...

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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What do I care if you are good...

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

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Genius is simply childhood, re...

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

As the end of the century appr...

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

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Strangeness is the indispensab...

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

To be away from home and yet t...

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the worldЂ'impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Dance can reveal everything my...

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

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Through the Unknown, we'll fin...

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

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