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Charles Baudelaire
13 quotes
Quotes
- “Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal an...”
- “To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infini...”
- “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chos...”
- “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with inno...”
- “Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the imm...”
- “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
- “Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
- “And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”
- “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
- “If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
- “Inspiration comes of working every day.”
- “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
- “The beautiful is always bizarre.”