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    Charles Baudelaire

    Read through the most famous quotes from Charles Baudelaire




    It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #costume #fashion #beauty

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


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #food

    And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #humor #insane #philosophy #poetry #beauty

    The Beautiful is always strange. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #beautiful #strange #art

    Music fathoms the sky. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #music #sky

    In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk! ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #life

    The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #equality

    Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #family

    «¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!» ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #crazy #dreams-inspirational #madness #poem #dreams

    The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished. ↗


    — Charles Baudelaire

    #artist #beauty #art






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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. "


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    "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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