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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Beings Create Exist Know Only Poet Priest Respect Soldier Three Worthy

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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Cultivated Hysteria Pleasure Terror

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We are all born marked for evil.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Born Evil Marked

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

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Nearly Originality Our Sensibility Stamp Time

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Aristocratic Bad Bad Taste Exhilarating Giving Offense Pleasure Taste

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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Always Art Committed Effort Evil Goodness Naturally Product Some Without

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Progress, this great heresy of decay.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Decay Great Heresy Progress

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Beautiful Calculation Noble Reason Result Which

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Day Every Every Day Inspiration Working

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

~Charles Baudelaire

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9th, 1821

Died: August 31st, 1867

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