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In certain almost supernatural...

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I am bored in France because e...

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I am the wound and the knife!<...

I am the wound and the knife!
I am the slap and the cheek!
I am the limbs and the rack,
And the victim and the executioner!
I am the vampire of my own heart.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The taste for pleasure attache...

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

However incoherent a human exi...

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Nations, like families, have g...

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I have always been astonished ...

I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God?
The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The vices of man, as full of h...

The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A Dandy does nothing....

A Dandy does nothing.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Being a useful man has always ...

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

My soul travels on the smell o...

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The immense profundity of thou...

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Eternal superiority of the Dan...

Eternal superiority of the Dandy.
What is the Dandy?

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is the pleasure of astonish...

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Dandyism is the last flicker o...

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

These beings have no other sta...

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There exist certain individual...

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

On the day when a young writer...

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Every idea is endowed of itsel...

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I have cultivated my hysteria ...

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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

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