"Extract the eternal from the ephemeral." — Charles Baudelaire
"Extract the eternal from the ephemeral."
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Charles Baudelaire
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266 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire has 266 quotes on this site.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new…
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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More Ephemeral Quotes
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
— Eugene Ionesco
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All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we…
— Johannes Kepler
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Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to…
— Mike deGruy
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth…
— George Santayana
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come…
— Pope Francis
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And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That…
— William Shatner
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
— William E. Simon
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The…
— Georges Cuvier
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Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair
— Judith Light
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Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
— Emilio Estevez
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