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What is art? Prostitution.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

We are all born marked for evil.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

Language

Practice

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Charles Baudelaire

Irony

Literary

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

Heart

Lonely

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Charles Baudelaire

Men

Women

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Charles Baudelaire

Will

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

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Reason

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

Work