Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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Et à quoi bon exécuter des projets, puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante?
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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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Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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Soon we shall plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our short-lived summers!
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Plus l'homme cultive les arts, moins il bande.
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.