Charles Baudelaire quotes - page 3

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. (Charles Baudelaire)
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
Charles Baudelaire
What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire
We are all born marked for evil.
Charles Baudelaire
Through the unknown, we'll find the new.
Charles Baudelaire
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
Charles Baudelaire
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
Charles Baudelaire
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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Remembering is only a new form of suffering. (Charles Baudelaire)
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Charles Baudelaire
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
Charles Baudelaire
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Charles Baudelaire
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Charles Baudelaire
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. (Charles Baudelaire)
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
Charles Baudelaire
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
Charles Baudelaire
Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire