Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Citations
Baudelaire, Charles. Intimate Journals. Translated by Christopher Isherwood, Black Spring Press, 1989, p. 95.
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and one of the first translators of Edgar Allan Poe. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life.