82 result(s) for Charles Baudelaire Quotes.
"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; good is always the product of an art."
"The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!"
"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
"You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it - it's the only way."
"Jewelry's a beautiful thing...it goes straight to your heart, are they tears, are they stars!"
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"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need."
"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror."
"It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of Time, be ceaselessly drunk."
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist."
"One should always be drunk. That's all: that's the only question."
"The future is a convenient place for dreams."
"You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way."
"Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty."
"The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form."
"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
"Get drunk with love, for love is all that exists."
"The loveliest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!"
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days but not without poetry."
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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
"The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him."
"The person who loves reproaches us for not loving enough."
"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are visions of happiness."
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk."
"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
"To be a saint is the exception; to be a just man is the rule."
"Life is a hospital in which every patient is obsessed with changing beds."
"It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls."
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist."
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest."
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"Always be deep in life, always have time for the joy of your children."
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
"You must always think of things in the shape of form before you think of them as color."
"To be famous, is to be misunderstood."
"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."
"The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow."
"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or lose?"
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk."
"You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk."
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy."
"Dress like a beggar, behave like a king, cherish like a theft."
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."
"To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it."
"The greatest sin in the world is to go to bed just as stupid as when you woke up."
"The beautiful is always bizarre."
"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time."
"The poet is a madman lost in adventure."
"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable."
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
"Any man who does not rise above the animal condition carries in himself a tragic defect, and not a less strange one because it is a common one."
"One should always be drunk. That's all: there is no other way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk."
"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."
"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
"The constant reflection fulfills his whole life with the duties of the fondest affection and the tenderest devotion."
"There is no ideal beauty that cannot be intensified a hundred times by the constant reflection of tender affection."
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist."
"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!"
"Always be a poet, even in prose."
"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."
"To be always right, always perfect, is a flaw."
"In Paris, everyone wants to be an actor; no one is content to be a spectator."
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing."
"The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist."
"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old."
"You have to be always drunken. That’s all there is to it – it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk."
"Inspiration comes of working every day."
"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
"One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters; that’s our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time’s horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing."
"In praise of the purity of the milk of the stars!"
"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open."
"It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will."
"The poet is a kinsman in the clouds who scoffs at archers, loves a storm."
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