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Charles Baudelaire: 'Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'What is art? Prostitution.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.'

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

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Charles Baudelaire: 'I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'We are all born marked for evil.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'Inspiration comes of working every day.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'Always be a poet, even in prose.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'The world only goes round by misunderstanding.'

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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.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'Nothing can be done except little by little.'

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Charles Baudelaire: 'Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.'

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

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