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Doubt, or the absence of faith...

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Remembering is only a new form...

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

To dream magnificently is not ...

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Theory of the true civilizatio...

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

To be just, that is to say, to...

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

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Nature is a temple, where the ...

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The Poet is a kinsman in the c...

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

He who looks through an open w...

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Genius is no more than childho...

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

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Nature is a word, an allegory,...

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Relate comic things in pompous...

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasГ© ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days

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A friend of mine, the most inn...

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

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What can an eternity of damnat...

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Life has but one true charm: t...

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

What strange phenomena we find...

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exis...

Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

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With wine, poetry, or virtue a...

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

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We revel in the laxness of the...

We revel in the laxness of the path we take.

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Nothing is as tedious as the l...

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

I am a cemetery by the moon un...

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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