"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the……" — Charles Baudelaire
"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense."
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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 Aristocratic Quotes
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're…
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this…
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
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Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing…
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Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists…
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome,…
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It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting…
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love…
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Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is…
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I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the…
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Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
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