Quotes about Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it...

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

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense...

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies...

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

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

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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

#Charles Baudelaire