"What can an eternity of damnation matter to……" — Charles Baudelaire
"What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?"
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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 Damnation Quotes
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed…
— Henry Adams
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
— John Calvin
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
— Rebecca West
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
— Victor Hugo
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for…
— Saint Augustine
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.
— Blackbeard
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For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.
— Peter Chrysologus
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
— Saint Augustine
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From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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