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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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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast. Charles Baudelaire
Love Greedy Baby Dream Ideal Does However End Up May Hanging Which Fat
Music fathoms the sky. Charles Baudelaire
Music Sky
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. Charles Baudelaire
Life Change Life Is A Patient Every Possessed Hospital Bed His Which Desire
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. Charles Baudelaire
Love Women Evil Men Men And Women Birth Lies Delight Know Supreme Committing Sensual Certainty Unique Found
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. Charles Baudelaire
Me Satan Beauty Difficult Type Would Would-Be Perfect Masculine Most Conclude Portrayed Milton
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. Charles Baudelaire
Pleasure Hysteria Terror Cultivated
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. Charles Baudelaire
Nature Me Ugly Nothing Consider Monsters Positively Trivial Because Exists Represent Fancy Prefer Useless Satisfies Tedious
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! Charles Baudelaire
Hypocrite Brother Fellow Reader
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. Charles Baudelaire
Life Living Our Everything Insatiable Lies Immortality Proof Beyond Most Reveals Which Living Proof Thirst
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. Charles Baudelaire
God Religion Would Divine Still Proven Were Exist Even
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. Charles Baudelaire
Believe Astonishing Immense Crowd Priest He Because Makes Being Things
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Charles Baudelaire
Poet Diminished Moral Objective Poetic Pursued He Force His
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. Charles Baudelaire
Art Criticism Born Womb
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. Charles Baudelaire
Prayer Man Says Posting He His Who Captain Evening Sleep
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Charles Baudelaire
Art Passion Else Everything Everything Else
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. Charles Baudelaire
Sad Religion Man Liberty Better Language Long Own Our Anguish Individual He Knows Because Itself Very Celebrated Than Which Ask Full Grants Painter Each Universal Profoundly
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. Charles Baudelaire
Life Family Women World Impossible Sex Lover Those Find Could He Fair Makes His Just Lovely Creates Who Whole Found
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Charles Baudelaire
Work You Long Dare Except Piece Thing Start
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. Charles Baudelaire
Art Good Fate Evil Without Always Effort Done Working Product Naturally
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire
Work Despair Everything Considered Boring Oneself Least Than Less Inclination Necessary Amusing
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. Charles Baudelaire
Memories Old Thousand Thousand Years More Were Years Than
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Charles Baudelaire
Life Man Soul Accept Does His Conditions Sells Any Who
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. Charles Baudelaire
Beauty Before Cries Study Terror Duel Artist Being Which Defeated
We are all born marked for evil. Charles Baudelaire
Evil Marked Born
Everything for me becomes allegory. Charles Baudelaire
Me Everything Allegory Becomes
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. Charles Baudelaire
Poet Others Able He Wishes Himself Privilege Being Incomparable
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