Charles Baudelaire - Pleasure Quotes

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

Charles Baudelaire
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Charles Baudelaire
One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Charles Baudelaire
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire
There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.
In French: La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté

Charles Baudelaire
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Charles Baudelaire
There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness and pleasure.

Charles Baudelaire
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.

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