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Inspiration comes of working every day.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about inspiration, day

It is time to get drunk, so as not to be the martyred slaves of time, get drunk, get drunk without stopping.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about time

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

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about bad luck, good luck, people

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent, it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about art, magic, being

Music fathoms the sky.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about music, sky

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about nature, word

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

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about nature, voice, interest, self-control, nothing

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about sex

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, city, wealth, life

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about love, impossible, family, sex, world, life

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels, he can sleep.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about sleep, man

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about present, essential, quality, pleasure, beauty, being

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry, poets, being

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about religion, faith, being, things

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about teaching, fear, beauty, artists, being

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about world

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, happiness

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about existence, univers, time

Two fundamental literary qualities supernaturalism and irony.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about literature, irony, literary critic

We are all born marked for evil.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about bad