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 BAUDELAIREI 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.
More Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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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.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
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What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.
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What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
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Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
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What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
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Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
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