CHARLES BAUDELAIRE QUOTES
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- What do I care if you are good?
- Be beautiful! and be sad!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Flowers of Evil
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Mon coeur mis à nu
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, My Heart Laid Bare
- Nature is a temple where living pillars
- Sometimes emit confused words;
- There man passes through the forests of symbols
- Which observe him with familiar looks.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Correspondences
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, New Notes on E. Poe, part III
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Mon coeur mis à nu
- Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing
- Mount to those luminous serene fields!
- The man whose thoughts, like larks,
- Take liberated flight toward the morning skies
- --Who hovers over life and understands without effort
- The language of flowers and voiceless things!
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, "Elevation"
Nothing can be done except little by little.
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