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    Charles Baudelaire

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    Thy love wakes thirst for Heaven in one and all: Leper, pimp, outcast, fool and criminal, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #the-flowers-of-evil #the-litanies-of-satan #love

    Enjoying a crowd is an art. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #art

    Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #inner voice #nature #nothing #self-interest #voice

    Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #art #done #effort #evil #fate

    A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #devours #else #everything #frenzied #passion

    There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #existence #heightened #immensely #moments #more

    There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #beings #create #exist #kill #know

    Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #calculation #everything #noble #product #reason

    How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #him #how #i #little #man

    The world only goes round by misunderstanding. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #misunderstanding #only #round #world






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    When Baudelaire returned from Belgium after his stroke Manet and his wife were frequent visitors at the nursing home and Charles Baudelaire would play passages from Wagner for Baudelaire on the piano. Like Poe Baudelaire believed in the doctrine of original sin denounced democracy and the idea of progress and of man's natural goodness and Poe held a disdainful aristocratic attitude similar to Baudelaire's dandy. "


    Pleasure
    "Personally I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil.

    His most famous work Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others.

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