French - Poet | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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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.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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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.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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