Best Charles Baudelaire Proverbs
- He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,… Act
- It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely. Able
- Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… All
- I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. Blue
- So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk. Bends
- and over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year; Fate
- These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and… Aristocratic
- Extract the eternal from the ephemeral. Ephemeral
- Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage. Church
- From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him… All
- Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty! Beauty
- The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish… Adopts
- I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Discover
- Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I… Ashes
- If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -… Accept
- If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. Exist
- Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural… Acts
- That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… Appeal
- A multitude of small delights constitute happiness Constitute
- Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. Baudelaire
- Through the Unknown, we'll find the New Find
- ...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered… Amber
- But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And… Always Say
- 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,… Centre
- Even when she walks one would believe that she dances. Ballet
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