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Always be a poet, even in prose.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Poetry]
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Insults]
Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Opportunity]
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Labor]
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Love]
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Media-Journalism]
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
  - Charles Baudelaire more quotations on [Hate]
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