Author: Charles Baudelaire

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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

- 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

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

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

- Charles Baudelaire

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

- Charles Baudelaire

What is art? Prostitution.

What is art? Prostitution.

- Charles Baudelaire

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

- 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 time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

- Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

- Charles Baudelaire

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