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Baudelaire QUOTES

  • To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  • 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.

  • A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

  • A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.



  • Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  • There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

  • Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

  • Progress, this great heresy of decay.

  • Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  • It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

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


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