Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
We found 45 quotes.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
French poet 1821-1867
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
French poet 1821-1867
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
French poet 1821-1867
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
French poet 1821-1867
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
French poet 1821-1867
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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.
French poet 1821-1867
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
French poet 1821-1867
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
French poet 1821-1867
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
French poet 1821-1867
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
French poet 1821-1867
