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Charles Baudelaire

Birthday: April 09, 1821
Deathday: August 31, 1867
Category: French Poet
Type: Poet
National: French

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a...

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

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

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

Always be a poet, even in prose....

Any healthy man can go without food for two days...

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life...

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is...

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two...

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste....

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man....

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth...

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion...

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be...

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself....

Everything for me becomes allegory....

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of...

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always...

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working...

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines...

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation....

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a...

God is the only being who, in order to reign,...

How little remains of the man I once was, save...

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor...

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in...

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror....

I have more memories than if I were a thousand...

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that...

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has...

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well...

In order for the artist to have a world to...

Inspiration comes of working every day....

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if,...

It is from the womb of art that criticism was...

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being...

It is time to get drunk! So as not to...

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that...

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim...

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of...

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is...

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half...

Music fathoms the sky....

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit...

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest....

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time...

Nothing can be done except little by little....

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of...

Progress, this great heresy of decay....

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses....

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in...

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which...

The life of our city is rich in poetic and...

The lover of life makes the whole world into his...

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain...

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present...

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to...

The priest is an immense being because he makes the...

The study of beauty is a duel in which the...

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the...

The world only goes round by misunderstanding....

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are...

There are moments of existence when time and space are...

There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior,...

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may...

There is no more steely barb than that of the...

There is no such thing as a long piece of...

This life is a hospital in which every patient is...

Those men get along best with women who can get...

To be a great man and a saint for oneself,...

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind...

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art...

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony....

We are all born marked for evil....

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and...

What is art? Prostitution....

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure...

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it...

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of...