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> [For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/for-the-perfect-idler-for-the-passionate-observer-it-becomes-an/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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> [To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/to-be-away-from-home-and-yet-to-feel-oneself-everywhere-at-home-to/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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## More by Charles Baudelaire

> [Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/who-would-dare-assign-to-art-the-sterile-function-of-imitating-nature/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-pulled-was-convincing-the-world-he/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/this-life-is-a-hospital-in-which-each-patient-is-possessed-by-the/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-long-piece-of-work-except-one-that-you/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/our-religion-is-itself-profoundly-sad-a-religion-of-universal-anguish/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/but-the-true-voyagers-are-only-those-who-leave-just-to-be-leaving/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/amer-savoir-celui-qu-on-tire-du-voyage-bitter-is-the-knowledge-gained/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [“Car je cherche le vide, el le noir, el le nu!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/car-je-cherche-le-vide-el-le-noir-el-le-nu/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/i-can-barely-conceive-a-type-of-beauty-in-which-there-is-no-melancholy/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/the-vices-of-man-as-full-of-horror-as-one-might-suppose-them-to-be/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/multitude-solitude-equal-and-interchangeable-terms-for-the-active-and/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/any-healthy-man-can-go-without-food-for-two-days-but-not-without/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/drink-wine-drink-poetry-drink-virtue/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/man-loves-man-so-much-that-when-he-flees-the-city-it-is-still-to-seek/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

> [“—But why is she weeping? She, the perfect beauty, Who could put at her feet the conquered human race, What secret malady gnaws at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/but-why-is-she-weeping-she-the-perfect-beauty-who-could-put-at-her/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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