"It is the hour to be drunken! to……" — Charles Baudelaire
"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
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Charles Baudelaire
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266 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…
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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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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and…
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Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness…
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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there…
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The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on…
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly…
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate…
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