Amusing Oneself Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!…
• Nothing can be done except little by little.
• I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and…
• Always be a poet, even in prose.
• Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
• An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which…
• How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of…
• There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

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