Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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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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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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Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
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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.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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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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Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.
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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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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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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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Glorifier le culte des images (ma grande, mon unique, ma primitive passion).
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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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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La femme ne sait pas séparer l'âme du corps.
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On ne peut oublier le temps qu'en s'en servant.
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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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La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.