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Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Believe Men Suffer
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Crowd Poet Solitude
Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Create Imagination Monde World
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Love Need People Self
La volupte unique et supre” me de l’amour g|”t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Evil Pleasure Unique
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Beauty Best Crime Love
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Art Born Criticism
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Men Music Travel
Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Agony Depth Heart
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Baudelaire Family Like Men
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Childhood Genius
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Cat Glass Music Window
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Attitude Dream Sleep
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Able Privilege Wish
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Mouth Silent Sweet
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Found New People World

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