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Way Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

12 Way quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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Baudelaire’s 12 verses on the Way feel like a brief stroll through a shadowed garden. Though the collection is modest, each line carries his signature blend of melancholy and decadence, inviting readers to contemplate direction through a lens of aesthetic intensity.

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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

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A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

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In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way.…

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How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only…

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The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the…

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Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,…

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Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

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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.

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My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a…

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You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible…

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It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the…

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Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that…

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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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Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

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Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city…

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“—But why is she weeping? She, the perfect beauty, Who could put at her feet the conquered human race, What secret malady gnaws at…

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