Charles Baudelaire Quotes
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Charles Baudelaire
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire
We are all born marked for evil.
Charles Baudelaire
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Charles Baudelaire
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