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Charles Baudelaire

All CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Quotes about “Literature”

“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.”
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”
“How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
“For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.”
“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
“I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.”
“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
“Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.”
“Progress, this great heresy of decay.”
“Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.”
“The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.”

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Madness,
Memories,
Moon,
Morning,
Nature,
Pain,
Passion,
Photography,

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