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I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Knives, Self

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Charles Baudelaire
Children, Heart, Two
"Baudelaire: a self portrait".

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire
Life, Lonely, Heart
"Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, History, Towns

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

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Miserable, Has Beens

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Agony, Depth
Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.77, David R. Godine Publisher

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Light, Knowing

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Cities, Paris

Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

Charles Baudelaire
Heart, Beast, Plus

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'.

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

Charles Baudelaire
Laughter, Hate, Heart

When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

Charles Baudelaire
Love You, Heart, Mean

Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, I shall not know the highest bliss, And give my name to the abyss Which waits to claim me as its own.

Charles Baudelaire
Stars, Eye, Heart

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