Quotes by
Charles Baudelaire |
1821-1867 , French poet
French 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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Quotations
| • | If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. 12 |
| • | The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that does not exist. 11 |
| • | Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; Good is always the product of skill. 9 |
| • | God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. 8 |
| • | The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. 7 |
| • | Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. 6 |
| • | 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. 6 |
| • | Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. 5 |
| • | Remembering is only a new form of suffering. 5 |
| • | The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated. 4 |
| • | Always be a poet, even in prose. 4 |
| • | Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. 4 |
| • | The bizarre is a necessary ingredient in beauty. 4 |
| • | Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. 3 |
| • | There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes. 3 |
| • | This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed. 3 |
| • | Being a useful man always seemed to me something very hideous. 3 |
| • | Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body. 3 |
| • | Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner. 2 |
| • | I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. 2 |
| • | Progress is a doctrine of idlers and Belgians. 2 |
Quotes in Verse
| • | I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon. 5 |
