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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Even Financial Honesty Honesty Is Merchant Speculation

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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Bottle Sweetheart Wife Wine

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It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Being Drunk Drunken Escape Hour Poetry Slaves Time Virtue Wine Wish You

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Child Contradictory Ecstasy Feelings Felt Heart Horror Life Small Small Child Two

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

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Aristocracy Being Danger Ethics Glory Literature Subtle Us Well

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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Approaches Columns Confused Familiar Forests Glance Him Living Man Nature Observe Sometimes Symbols Temple Through Which Words

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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Evocative Handle Kind Language Practice

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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

Topics: Choose Conception Consumes Down Escaping Every Forgetting Let Us Means Moment Nightmare Pleasure Sensation Strengthens Time Two Us Weighed Work

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Genius is childhood recalled at will.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Childhood Genius Recalled Will

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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Awareness Existence Immensely Moments More Profound Space Time Time And Space

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9th, 1821

Died: August 31st, 1867

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