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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Charles Baudelaire quotes about god

French Poet, Critic April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867

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Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there Up there the wonderful clouds! Charles Baudelaire
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire of his opal eyes, Clear beacons glowing, living jewels, Taking my... Charles Baudelaire
THE OWLSby: Charles Baudelaire. UNDER the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos. Their red eyes gleam. They meditate. Motionless thus they sit and dream. Until that melancholy hour. When, with the sun's last fading gleam, The nightly shades assume their power. From their still attitude the wise. Will learn with terror to despise. All tumult, movement, and unrest; For he who follows every shade, Carries the memory in his breast, Of each... Charles Baudelaire
Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering / as sacred remedy for all our sins, / that best and purest essence which prepares / the strong in spirit for divine delights! Charles Baudelaire
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would..."
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even..."
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. Charles Baudelaire

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