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    Charles Baudelaire

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    Genius is childhood recalled at will. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #genius #recalled #will

    Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #boring #considered #everything #less #oneself

    The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #certainty #committing #delight #evil #found

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


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #sweetheart #wife #wine

    I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #hysteria #i #pleasure #terror

    What is art? Prostitution. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #even #exist #god #need #only

    How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #him #how #i #little #man

    There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #existence #heightened #immensely #moments #more

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


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #devours #else #everything #frenzied #passion






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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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