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    Charles Baudelaire

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    It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

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


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #calculation #everything #noble #product #reason

    Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #any #but not without #days #food #go

    The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #everything #immortality #insatiable #lies #life

    It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #each #ill #luck #misunderstanding #never

    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

    #conclude #difficult #masculine #me #milton

    The world only goes round by misunderstanding. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #misunderstanding #only #round #world

    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

    I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #memories #more #old #than #thousand

    To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #handle #kind #language #practice #skillfully






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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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