Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish,...

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish,...

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

Death, old captain, it is time, let us raise anchor!

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

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

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and...

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and...

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

What is art? Prostitution.

What is art? Prostitution.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in...

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in...

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it...

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it...

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created...

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created...

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

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

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end...

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end...

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the...

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the...

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

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

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.