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Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Charles Baudelaire
Love, Men, Occupation

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

Charles Baudelaire
Church, Wanted

Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

Charles Baudelaire
Strong, Cat, Pride

All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

Charles Baudelaire
Shops, Visible, Universe

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

Charles Baudelaire
Work, Want, Produce
Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

Charles Baudelaire
Dream, Work, Poor
Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

Charles Baudelaire
Archer, Clouds, Wings
"Selected Poems".

My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Beast, My Heart
Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.115, OUP Oxford

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Charles Baudelaire
Vision, Looks, Window

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspirational, Wine, Drunk

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Charles Baudelaire
Time, Nature, Flower

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Charles Baudelaire
Space, Profound, Moments

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Charles Baudelaire
Nature, Action, Mysterious
Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.38

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Philosophical, Imagination

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire
Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Charles Baudelaire
Literature, Adultery, Sexuality
Journaux intimes (1887) 93

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Charles Baudelaire
Spiritual, Art, Mean
Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Charles Baudelaire
Work, Simple, Years

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Charles Baudelaire
Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing
Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Charles Baudelaire
Unity, May, Human Nature

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

Charles Baudelaire
Home, World, Tongue
Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

Charles Baudelaire
Men, Important, Saint
"The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Charles Baudelaire
Ancient, Corruption, Ancient Times

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Charles Baudelaire
Drunk, Earth, Break
Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.

Charles Baudelaire
Men, Infinity, Vices

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