"There is a word, in a verb, something……" — Charles Baudelaire
"There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
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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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If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass…
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The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...
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A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words…
— Oliver Herford
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Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know…
— Anthony Burgess
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface…
— Henry David Thoreau
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they…
— Christopher Hitchens
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and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have…
— George Eliot
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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and…
— Edith Wharton
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