Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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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

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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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