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Charles Baudelaire

1821-1867 ,  French poet
Charles BaudelaireFrench poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work is , Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil).

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

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

Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; Good is always the product of skill.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates.

Progress, that great heresy of degenerates.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

The bizarre is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes.

This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

Being a useful man always seemed to me something very hideous.

Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body.

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

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Progress is a doctrine of idlers and Belgians.

Quotes in Verse

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.


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