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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Charles Baudelaire quotes

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

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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind. 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
Charles Baudelaire quote: "It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful..."
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely. 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
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
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
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of..."
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. 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. Charles Baudelaire
It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well — we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage") Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient..."
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness..."
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Those men get along best with women who can get along best..."
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with..."
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire quote: "Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. Charles Baudelaire
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

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