Charles Baudelaire quotes

Charles Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, and art critic, celebrated as a pioneer of modern literature. His collection "Les Fleurs du mal" had a profound impact on both poetry and aesthetics. He influenced generations of writers and artists with his innovative style and explorations of beauty and decadence. Here are 232 of his quotes:

Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry. (Charles Baudelaire)
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. View quote
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. View quote
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. View quote
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Genius is childhood recalled at will. View quote
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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. View quote
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. View quote
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. View quote
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. View quote
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. View quote
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God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. (Charles Baudelaire)
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. View quote
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The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. View quote
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. View quote
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What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness. View quote
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Always be a poet, even in prose. View quote
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The beautiful is always bizarre. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. (Charles Baudelaire)
Music fathoms the sky. View quote
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. View quote
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Inspiration comes of working every day. View quote
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. View quote
Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

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Occupation: French Poet
Born: April 9, 1821
Died: August 31, 1867
Quotes count: 232
Wikipedia: Charles Baudelaire

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