"We love women in proportion to their degree……" — Charles Baudelaire
"We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us."
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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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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I…
— Michele Bachmann
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— Honore de Balzac
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't…
— Alain de Botton
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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