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There is no sweeter pleasure t...

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The cannon thunders... limbs f...

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is regrettable that, among ...

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is this admirable and immor...

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The idea which man forms of be...

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

For me, Romanticism is the mos...

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Where one should see only what...

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

In philosophical inquiry, the ...

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

By nature, by necessity itself...

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The artist is today and has be...

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is one of the prodigious pr...

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

Woman is natural, that is to s...

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Multitude, solitude: equal and...

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Love is a taste for prostituti...

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Love is the natural occupation...

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

To glorify the cult of images ...

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion).

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

What a mysterious faculty is t...

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

On the vaporization and the ce...

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

That in all times, mediocrity ...

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I lived for a long time under ...

I lived for a long time under vast porticos
That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires,
And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous
In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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