“Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“The cannon thunders … limbs fly in all directions … one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice … it’s Humanity in search of happiness.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name ofpoem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“We have psychologized like the insane, who make their insanity greater by striving to understand it.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and shameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she willalways prefer are the most prosaic.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“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.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“They were making their way with the resigned expression of those who are condemned to hope forever.”
Charles Baudelaire
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“These great and beautiful ships, imperceptibly rocking like waddling ducks on tranquil waters, these robust ships, with their idleand nostalgic air, aren’t they telling us in a silent tongue: When are we leaving for happiness?”
Charles Baudelaire
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“The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hands, of her bosom, of her knees, of her hair, of her supple and floating clothes, … has contracted from this contact a tender skin and a distinct accent, a kind of androgyny without which the harshest and most masculine genius remains, as far as perfection in art is concerned, an incomplete being.”
Charles Baudelaire
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