"I sit in the sky like a sphinx……" — Charles Baudelaire
"I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know."
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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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In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the…
— William Bernbach
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone…
— Confucius
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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
— Al Gore
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The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of…
— Jose Bergamin
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The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.
— Louie Giglio
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The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense;…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
— Theresa May
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The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a…
— Ray Bradbury
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