"Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act…" — Charles Baudelaire

"Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will."

— Charles Baudelaire

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266 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire has 266 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
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…
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…
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new…
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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