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There exist certain individua...

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

Photographers, you will never...

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Life has but one true charm: ...

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

You have to be always drunk. ...

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A silent mouth is sweet to he...

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A work of art should be like ...

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

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

The taste for pleasure attach...

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

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

France is not poetic; she eve...

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The life of our city is rich ...

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Evil is done without effort, ...

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is necessary to work, if n...

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Progress, this great heresy o...

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I love Wagner, but the music ...

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Any newspaper, from the first...

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Even in the centuries which a...

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

In order for the artist to ha...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

This life is a hospital in wh...

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There is no such thing as a l...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

For each letter received from...

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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