Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French poet

Lived from: 1821 - 1867

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 9 april 1821 Died: 31 august 1867

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  • Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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  • Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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  • Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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  • Nothing can be done except little by little.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
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  • 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.
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  • The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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  • The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
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  • The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
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  • The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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  • The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
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  • The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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  • There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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  • 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.
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  • There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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  • There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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  • To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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