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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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

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What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. Charles Baudelaire
Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I... Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of..."
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. Charles Baudelaire
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blas ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the... Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Progress, this great heresy of decay."
Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only..."
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Charles Baudelaire

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