Charles Baudelaire Quotes

French - Poet | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Charles Baudelaire

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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

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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

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

Charles Baudelaire

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Charles Baudelaire

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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

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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Charles Baudelaire

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