Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
French poet 1821-1867
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
French poet 1821-1867
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
French poet 1821-1867
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
French poet 1821-1867
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
French poet 1821-1867
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
French poet 1821-1867
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
French poet 1821-1867
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
French poet 1821-1867
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
French poet 1821-1867
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
French poet 1821-1867
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