Charles Pierre Baudelaire was an influential nineteenth century French poet, critic and acclaimed translator.
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“A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle”
Charles Baudelaire
“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art”
“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.”
“A breath of wind from the wings of madness.”
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
“Music fathoms the sky.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.”