Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French poet

Lived from: 1821 - 1867

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: France

Born: 9 april 1821 Died: 31 august 1867

Quotes 41 till 45 of 45.

• To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

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• True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

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• We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

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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.

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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• spirituality
• civilization
• democratized
• venerealized
• exhilarating
• aristocratic

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