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One can only forget about time by making use of it.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspirational, Time, Use
"Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire
Time, Mean, Night
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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

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

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

Charles Baudelaire
Time, Funny Basketball, Originality

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Time, Aquariums
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

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