Ifs Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

11 Ifs quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire’s “Ifs” linger like a scented fog, each fragment hinting at the melancholy and yearning that define his poetic voice.

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What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

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Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing…

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If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks…

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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but…

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From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume,…

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Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins…

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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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Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner,…

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

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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The…

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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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