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"24 Charles Baudelaire Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 April 1821. Died: 31 August 1867 | Poet | Essayist | Critic |

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any Days Food Go
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Book Company Counselors Garden
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Beautiful Calculation Everything Noble
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
Every Day Inspiration Working
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Captain Evening He His
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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.

Atmosphere City Life Marvelous
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Art Else Everything Passion
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Beauty Habitual Happiness Kinds
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Amusing Boring Considered Everything
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Even Financial Honesty Merchant
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Inner Nature Nothing Voice
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Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done Except Little Nothing
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Goes Misunderstanding Only Round
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Bottle Sweetheart Wife Wine
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Dare Except Long Piece
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Among Artist Express First
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Always Art Done Effort
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Art Being Contingent Eternal
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Beating Cemetery Drum Funeral
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Childhood Genius Recalled Will
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Beings Create Exist Know
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Masses Sexuality
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Charles Baudelaire Quotes & Sayings