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The world progresses only through misunderstanding.
— Charles Baudelaire
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
— Charles Baudelaire
I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.
— Charles Baudelaire
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
— Charles Baudelaire
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
— Charles Baudelaire
But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
— Charles Baudelaire
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
— Charles Baudelaire
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
— Charles Baudelaire
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
— Charles Baudelaire
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
— Charles Baudelaire
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
— Charles Baudelaire
But he was not looking at the view beneath him. He was looking beside him, where Violet Baudelaire was sitting,
— Lemony Snicket
Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls,
Only your nudity
O my beauty! — Charles Baudelaire
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
— Charles Baudelaire
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?
— Charles Baudelaire
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
— Charles Baudelaire
To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.
— Charles Baudelaire
What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
— Charles Baudelaire
I love the clouds ... the clouds that pass by ... over there ... over there ... those lovely clouds!
— Charles Baudelaire
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
— Charles Baudelaire
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
— Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.
— Charles Baudelaire
Music pierces the sky.
— Charles Baudelaire
What is art? Prostitution.
— Charles Baudelaire
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
— Charles Baudelaire
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
— Charles Baudelaire
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
— Charles Baudelaire
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
— Charles Baudelaire
Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?
— Charles Baudelaire
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
— Charles Baudelaire
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
— Charles Baudelaire
Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.
— Charles Baudelaire
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
— Charles Baudelaire
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
— Charles Baudelaire
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
— Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.
— Charles Baudelaire
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
— Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
— Charles Baudelaire
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness ... Love should be love.
— Charles Baudelaire
Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
— Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
— Charles Baudelaire
We are all born marked for evil.
— Charles Baudelaire
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
— Charles Baudelaire
So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.
— Charles Baudelaire
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire
I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?
— Charles Baudelaire
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
— Charles Baudelaire
A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
— Charles Baudelaire
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
— Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
— Charles Baudelaire
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.
— Charles Baudelaire
Genius is childhood recovered at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
— Charles Baudelaire
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
— Charles Baudelaire
Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.
— Charles Baudelaire
I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.
— Lemony Snicket
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
— Charles Baudelaire
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
— Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
— Charles Baudelaire
Folly, error, sin, avariceOccupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire
Evil comes up softly like a flower.
— Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.
— Roberto Calasso
Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
— Charles Baudelaire
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
— Charles Baudelaire
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
— Charles Baudelaire
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.
— Charles Baudelaire
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
— Charles Baudelaire
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
— Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
— Charles Baudelaire
The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.
— Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.
— Charles Baudelaire
A Dandy does nothing.
— Charles Baudelaire
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
— Charles Baudelaire
Only when we drink poison are we well.
— Charles Baudelaire
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
— Charles Baudelaire
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
— Charles Baudelaire
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
— Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
— Charles Baudelaire
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
— Charles Baudelaire
A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.
— Charles Baudelaire
And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world.
— Charles Baudelaire
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
— Charles Baudelaire
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
— Charles Baudelaire
Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.
— Charles Baudelaire
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
— Charles Baudelaire
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
— Charles Baudelaire
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
— Charles Baudelaire
