Baudelaire
The Dandy
The flowers of evil. Charles found beauty in the mud. Golden spleen. He taught you that pain can be beautiful.
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Quotes
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Era
Life and journey
Charles was the dandy of the abyss. evil as a garden of flowers.
Their thought
Modernity and Spleen. 'correspondences'. beauty in intensity.
What they leave us
paved the way for all modern poetry. city's mud.
Major works
The Flowers of Evil (1857).
Paris Spleen (1869).
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10 quotes
“La nature est un temple où de vivants piliers laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Nature is a temple where living pillars sometimes let out confused words.”
— Les Fleurs du Mal
“Il faut être toujours ivre. Tout est là : c'est l'unique question.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“One must be always drunk. That's all that matters: it's the only question.”
— Le Spleen de Paris
“Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“You gave me your mud and I have made gold from it.”
— Les Fleurs du Mal
“L'imagination est la plus scientifique des facultés.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Imagination is the most scientific of faculties.”
— Curiosités esthétiques
“Le Mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité ; le Bien est toujours le produit d'un art.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, by fate; the Good is always the product of an art.”
— Le Peintre de la vie moderne
“L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The study of beauty is a duel where the artist screams in fear before being defeated.”
— Inconnu
“Il faut être toujours ivre.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“One must always be drunk.”
— Inconnu
“Le voyage est une amère science.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Travel is a bitter science.”
— Inconnu
“Il faut être toujours ivre. Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du Temps.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“One must always be drunk. That is all that matters; that's our one imperative need.”
— Inconnu
“Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Genius is nothing more than childhood recaptured at will.”
— Inconnu
