"It would perhaps be nice to be alternately……" — Charles Baudelaire
"It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner."
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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 Alternately Quotes
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening…
— Agnes Repplier
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by…
— Friedrich Engels
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with…
— Marcel Proust
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We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make…
— Larry Crabb
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make…
— Joseph Addison
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Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents -…
— Marian Bantjes
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