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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire
Happiness, Beauty, Way
Charles Baudelaire (1964). “Baudelaire as a literary critic”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

Charles Baudelaire
Travel, Home, Independent
"The Painter of Modern Life".

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire
God, Men, Two
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful, Care, I Care

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

Charles Baudelaire
Artist, Past, Reality

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Charles Baudelaire
Prayer, Sleep, Men
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.111, Courier Corporation

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Charles Baudelaire
Firsts, Ifs
Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire
Good Luck, Agreement, People

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration, Imagination

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire
Artist, Pleasure, Deformity

Everything for me becomes allegory

Charles Baudelaire
Allegory

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Charles Baudelaire
Time, Art, Work
Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Charles Baudelaire
Literature, Amusing, Know How

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire
War, Party, Book

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Charles Baudelaire
Habit, Duty
Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Charles Baudelaire
Giving, Imagination, Pastures
Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Charles Baudelaire
Wind, Wings, Madness
"Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal".

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspirational, Weakness, Succeed

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspiring, Art, Dual Nature

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

Charles Baudelaire
Love, Clouds, Lovely

Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

Charles Baudelaire
Thinking, Color, Clothes

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Charles Baudelaire
Dance, Dancing, Ballet
Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration, Long, Innovation

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

Charles Baudelaire
Love, Simplicity, Should

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Charles Baudelaire
Love, Sex, World
Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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