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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

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

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The dev...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspirati...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to esta...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly un...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Nothing can be done except little by little.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will giv...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corr...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the how...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invoca...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of t...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and to...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ...He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, a...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical mean...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessa...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or les...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as thoug...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, music...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The poet is like the prince of clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element o...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Havi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and po...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous p...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder o...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each othe...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Everything for me becomes allegory.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Music fathoms the sky.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is onl...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without s...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living p...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and tryi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are inter...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiratio...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marche...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, music...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you w...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but tw...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Inspiration comes of working every day.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Hypocritical reader, my double, my brother!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and tryi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of i...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Lo maravilloso
nos envuelve y nos empapa
como la atmósfera;
y, sin embargo, no lo ve...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We are all born marked for evil.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The beautiful is always bizarre.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE My love, do you recall the object which we saw,
That fair, sweet, summer morn!
At a turn i...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE One must astonish the bourgeois.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we wi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Progress, this great heresy of decay.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautifu...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element o...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Thank you. You have shown me the way back to myself.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howli...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spec...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,
that soft summer morning
round a turning in the...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one b...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Le Chat

Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux;
Retiens les griffes de...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. L...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of N...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; b...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Listen, my darling, listen to soft night approaching.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Havi...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other tow...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppresse...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Always be a poet, even in prose.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up o...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Genius is childhood recalled at will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE «¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If rape or arson, poison or the knife
Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff
Of this d...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Le serpent qui danse

Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity�...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the cent...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ...
BAUDELAIRE Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

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