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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
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.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
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.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Written by Charles Baudelaire
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Written by Charles Baudelaire

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