"He who looks through an open window sees……" — Charles Baudelaire
"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."
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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 Closed Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
— Stephen Baldwin
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
— Bono
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The…
— Bono
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
— Bill Bryson
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
— Julie Burchill
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open…
— George H. W. Bush
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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