Humans Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

11 Humans quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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Baudelaire’s brief selections on humanity distill his poetic, often dark, view of the human condition into a series of memorable, bite‑size lines.

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However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

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In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is…

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If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a…

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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…

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In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its…

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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…

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The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of…

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If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a…

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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of…

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What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,…

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Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,…

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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

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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…

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But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality…

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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

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“Car je cherche le vide, el le noir, el le nu!”

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“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

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The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their…

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Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

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

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