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Find important quotes and citations by the author Charles-Pierre Baudelaire.
Quote 2072
It is from the womb of art that criticism was bornQuote 2071
I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in waterQuote 2070
As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for workMore quotes on the topics: poverty necessity work sadness disease
Quote 2069
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.Quote 2068
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.More quotes on the topics: art reality conviction
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soulMore quotes on the topics: soul acceptance rules mankind
Quote 2066
There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards SatanMore quotes on the topics: personality character faith mankind
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In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do itQuote 2064
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to createMore quotes on the topics: respect worth art knowledge creativity
Quote 2063
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything elseQuote 2062
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himselfMore quotes on the topics: interest right egoism attention talent
Quote 2061
Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetryMore quotes on the topics: health eat and drink art hunger necessity
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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 immovableMore quotes on the topics: transience art eternity fashion
Quote 2059
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneselfMore quotes on the topics: work boredom joy necessity consideration
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an artQuote 2057
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happinessQuote 2056
Inspiration comes of working every dayMore quotes on the topics: inspiration work endurance
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bedQuote 1906
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years oldQuote 1577
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without themMore quotes on the topics: agreement harmony tolerance serenity sympathy understanding
Quote 876
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfactionMore quotes on the topics: fools beauty satisfaction past