Charles Baudelaire Short Quotes

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Hypocrite reader—my double—my brother!
In French: Hypocrite lecteur—mon semblable—mon frère

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Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses.

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Perfumes, colors and sounds echo one another.

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Those stars whose light speaks a known language.

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To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

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All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.

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O Death, old captain, it is time! raise the anchor!

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Dandyism is the last spark of heroism amid decadence.

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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

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To do one's duty every day and trust in God for tomorrow.

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What do I care that you are good?
Be beautiful! and be sad!

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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

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Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

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There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

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Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

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

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

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A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

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To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

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All that is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

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The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

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If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

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To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.

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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the one important thing.

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