Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood...

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be...

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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle....

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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up...

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

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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

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

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality,...

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

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

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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

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