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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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If rape, poison, daggers, arsonHave not yet embroidered with their pleasing designsThe banal canvas of our pitiable lives,It is because our souls have not enough boldness.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
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Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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C'est par le malentendu universel que tout le monde s'accorde.Car si, par malheur, on se comprenait, on ne pourrait jamais s'accorder.
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Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.
Charles Baudelaire -
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Charles Baudelaire
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Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Les autres hommes sont taillables et corvéables, faits pour l'écurie, c'est-à-dire pour exercer ce qu'on appelle des professions.
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Un artiste n'est un artiste que grâce à son sens exquis du beau, - sens qui lui procure des jouissances enivrantes, mais qui en même temps implique, enferme un sens également exquis de toute difformité et de toute disproportion.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire -
What is art? Prostitution.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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On ne peut oublier le temps qu'en s'en servant.
Charles Baudelaire
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Glorifier le culte des images (ma grande, mon unique, ma primitive passion).
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Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance?
Charles Baudelaire