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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (/ˌboʊdəlˈɛər, boʊdˈlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ] ( listen); April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Astonishment, Essentials, Follows, Part, Unexpected

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Artist, Deformities, Deformity, Intoxicating, Pleasure

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Choose, Drunk, Virtue, Wine

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

He Man, Magnifies, Man, Men, Mirrors, Thoughts

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Leisure, Love, Men, Natural, Occupation

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

Arson, Enough, Knives, Poison, Wove

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

Degree, Degrees, Love, Proportion, Strangeness, Women

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

Fifty, Lines, Literature, Received, Write, Writing

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Artist, Beauty, Duel, Dueling, History, Study

A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

Blood, Hate, Health, Liquid, Sleep

When it meows, one scarcely hears it. . . It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

Cat, Lengthiest, Needs, Scarcely, Speak, Words

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!

Strong, Essence, Giving, Spirit, Thanks

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Art, Beautiful, Bizarre, Creativity

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Confusing, Groves, Kindred, Men, Speech

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Atmosphere, Cities, Life, Marvelous, Poetic, Rich

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Day, Imagination, Inspiration, Working

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

Human, Lies, Lying, Men, Vices

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Beauty, Habitual, Happiness, Kinds, Way

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

Action, Certes, Dream, Monde, Sister, World

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking. . . . Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

Believe, Clothes, Excessive, Passion, Superiority, Thinking

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