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    Charles Baudelaire

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    There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #except #long #piece #start #such

    This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #change #desire #every #his #hospital

    To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #great man #important #important thing #man #oneself

    To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart

    What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #bad #bad taste #exhilarating #giving #offense

    Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty! ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #come #does #heaven #hell #matter

    The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #because #being #believe #crowd #immense

    I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #beauty #conceive #i #i can #melancholy

    I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #claws #glass #hung #i #i love

    A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #company #counselor #counselors #garden #multitude






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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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