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Nothing can be done except little by little.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

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

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

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

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Charles Baudelaire
Literature, Melancholy, Type

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

Charles Baudelaire
Literature, Amusing, Know How

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

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

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Charles Baudelaire
Objectivity, Literature, Moral

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

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Literature, Imitating Others
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Charles Baudelaire
Writing, Literature, Fifty

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire
Desire, Bed, Literature
"The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

Charles Baudelaire
Literature, Infinity, Infinite
Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Charles Baudelaire
Believe, Literature, Crowds

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charles Baudelaire
Aristocracy, Literature, Ethics

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