To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).
Quotes from Journaux intimes — Charles Baudelaire
1821–1867 France
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Journaux intimes (1864)
To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.
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Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
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Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body.
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To love intelligent women is the pleasure of a pederast.
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The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
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One can only forget about time by making use of it.
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Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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A woman is natural: that is to say, abominable.
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To do one's duty every day and trust in God for tomorrow.
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What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Baudelaire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.