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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

Nearly all our originality co...

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

It is the hour to be drunken!...

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A frenzied passion for art is...

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

God is the only being who, in...

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There are moments of existenc...

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

To the solemn graves, near a ...

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The dance can reveal everythi...

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Nature is a temple in which l...

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The unique and supreme volupt...

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A sweetheart is a bottle of w...

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Genius is childhood recalled ...

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Modernity is the transient, t...

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There are as many kinds of be...

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

How little remains of the man...

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

We are weighed down, every mo...

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Modernity is the transitory, ...

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Poetry and progress are like ...

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

An artist is an artist only b...

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There exist only three beings...

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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