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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Charles Baudelaire
Men, Giving, Surprise
Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.74

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

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Charles Baudelaire
Strong, Essence, Giving

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Charles Baudelaire
Giving, Literature, Taste
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Charles Baudelaire
Mean, Giving, Reason
"Salon de 1845". Book by Charles Baudelaire, May 1845.

Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Giving, Body
1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage a' Cythe' re'.

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.

Charles Baudelaire
Love Is, Men, Giving
Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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