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    Charles Baudelaire

    Read through the most famous quotes from Charles Baudelaire




    Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #contingent #eternal #fugitive #half #immutable

    Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #impresses #nearly #originality #our #sensibility

    Progress, this great heresy of decay. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #great #heresy #progress

    Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #sexuality

    The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #city #life #marvelous #notice #our

    The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #being #enjoys #himself #incomparable #others

    It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #get #martyred #poetry #slaves #stopping

    The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #beauty #before #being #cries #defeated

    There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #habitual #happiness #kinds #many #seeking

    There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #does #dream #end #fat #greedy






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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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