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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

It is at despair at not being ...

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

If wine disappeared from human...

If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Within the bottle's depths, th...

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

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Drink wine, drink poetry, drin...

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A work of art should be like a...

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Here comes the time when, vibr...

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There is a certain cowardice, ...

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The dandy should aspire to be ...

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I am the vampire at my own vei...

I am the vampire at my own veins.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as...

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

All forms of beauty, like all ...

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Ascend beyond the sickly atmos...

Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I should like the fields tinge...

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Beware of all the paradoxical ...

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

So as not to feel the horrible...

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

and over your unconsecrated he...

and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year;

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The Devil pulls the strings wh...

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The being who, for most men, i...

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 rathe

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

All fashions are charming, or ...

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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