Charles Baudelaire Quotes


26 quotes:

"On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Risk Quotes
"Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Madness Quotes
"I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Soul Quotes Gambling Quotes
"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Giving Quotes French Poet Quotes
"All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Fashion Quotes
"Inspiration comes of working every day."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Determination Quotes French Poet Quotes
"True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Civilization Quotes Sin Quotes
"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Childhood Quotes Genius Quotes
"As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Beginning Quotes
"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Bed Quotes French Poet Quotes
"All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes
"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes French Poet Quotes
"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: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes French Poet Quotes
"All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes
"There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them."
Author: Baudelaire Quotes Category: Action Quotes Contemplation Quotes

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