Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer.
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Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
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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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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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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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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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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
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La femme ne sait pas séparer l'âme du corps.
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La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.
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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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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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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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On ne peut oublier le temps qu'en s'en servant.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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Glorifier le culte des images (ma grande, mon unique, ma primitive passion).
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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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Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance?
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,Luxe, calme et volupté.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?