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I am the vampire at my own veins.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

Charles Baudelaire
Vampire, Veins, My Own
Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.80, David R. Godine Publisher

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Charles Baudelaire
Monsters, Innocent, Strange Phenomena
Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.101

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire
Progress, Decay, Literature

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire
Writing, Poetry, Literature
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.108, Courier Corporation

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

Charles Baudelaire
Winning, Games, What If

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Charles Baudelaire
Heaven, Doe, Matter

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Crime, Should

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Evil, Effort

We are all born marked for evil.

Charles Baudelaire
Evil, Literature, Born
Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Charles Baudelaire
Men, Literature

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

Charles Baudelaire
Believe, Men, Suffering
Charles Baudelaire, “Anywhere Out Of The World”

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Charles Baudelaire
God, Order, Needs

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

Charles Baudelaire
Echoes, Sound, Perfume
1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Correspondances'.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Charles Baudelaire
Wish, Able, Privilege
Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful, Math, Noble
Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Charles Baudelaire
Dancing, Merit, Mysterious
Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Justice, Doe

Discover day to day excitement.

Charles Baudelaire
Excitement, Day To Day
Charles Baudelaire (1950). “My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings”, Haskell House Pub Limited

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Charles Baudelaire
Artist, Photographer, Copiers

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

Charles Baudelaire

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Charles Baudelaire
Mean, Men, Order
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.398, CUP Archive

The People adore authority.

Charles Baudelaire
People, Authority, Adore
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.32, Courier Corporation

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Charles Baudelaire
Love, Self, Needs
Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Charles Baudelaire
Progress, World, Misunderstanding
Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire
Drinking, Wine, Drunk

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