Author: Charles Baudelaire

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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

- Charles Baudelaire

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

- Charles Baudelaire

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

- Charles Baudelaire

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.

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

What is art? Prostitution.

What is art? Prostitution.

- Charles Baudelaire

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

- Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

- Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

- Charles Baudelaire

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