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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
Born: Apr 9, 1821
Died: Aug 31, 1867
Art Beauty Being Even Man Time
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Nothing can be done except little by little. Charles Baudelaire
Nothing Except Done Little
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful Brainy Everything Noble Calculation Product Reason
The 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. Charles Baudelaire
Music Dance Additional Everything Dancing Hidden Poetry Mysterious Merit Arms Reveal Human Being Legs Being Human Palpable
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire
Wife Wine Bottle Sweetheart
Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire
Genius Will Childhood Recalled
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire
Time You Wine Wish Drunk Virtue Martyred Poetry Without Get Stopping Slaves
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire
Time You Wine Wish Drunk Virtue Martyred Poetry Hour Drunken Escape Being Slaves
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. Charles Baudelaire
Best Women Men Those Along Without Get Them Who
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. Charles Baudelaire
World Only Misunderstanding Goes Round
Inspiration comes of working every day. Charles Baudelaire
Work Day Every Day Every Inspiration Working
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire
Communication People Luck Other Would Never Misunderstanding Understood Ill Agree Each Universal
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire
Business Honesty Honesty Is Financial Merchant Even Speculation
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Charles Baudelaire
Man Honor Unable Could Take Without Understand How Am His Hands Disgust Newspaper Shudder
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. Charles Baudelaire
Time Space Awareness Immensely More Time And Space Existence Moments Profound
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire
Garden Book Party Way Counselor Counselors Orchard Company Multitude
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. Charles Baudelaire
Dreams Reality Sense Earth Tells Only True Exist Common Common Sense Little Us Things
Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire
Poet Poetry Prose Always Even
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire
Work Everything Considered Boring Oneself Than Less Amusing
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. Charles Baudelaire
Work Time Down Every Pleasure Weighed Consumes Conception Escaping Forgetting Sensation Us Means Choose Moment Let Us Strengthens Two Nightmare
What is art? Prostitution. Charles Baudelaire
Art
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Charles Baudelaire
Giving Pleasure Bad Bad Taste Aristocratic Exhilarating Offense Taste
Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire
Great Progress Decay Heresy
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire
Respect Three Poet Soldier Worthy Only Priest Know Exist Create Beings
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. Charles Baudelaire
About He Talk Himself Knows How Providing Anybody Right Amusing
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Charles Baudelaire
Time Our Sensibility Stamp Originality Nearly
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Charles Baudelaire
Great Man Important Great Man Oneself Only Important Thing Saint Thing
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