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Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, o beauty.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 172 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Pleasure | Clicks: 185 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We are all born marked for evil.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Bad | Clicks: 335 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Two fundamental literary qualities supernaturalism and irony.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 173 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 154 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: World | Clicks: 174 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Teaching | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Religion | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Poetry | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels, he can sleep.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 169 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are...

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Love | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 186 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Sex | Clicks: 197 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Nature is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Nature | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Nature | Clicks: 181 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Music fathoms the sky.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Music | Clicks: 204 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent, it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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