I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Genius is childhood recalled at will... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic.. view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!.. view
By: Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Everything for me becomes allegory... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally.. view
By: Charles Baudelaire
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate.. view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
We are all born marked for evil... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
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... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
What is art? Prostitution... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?.. view
By: Charles Baudelaire
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!.. view
By: Charles Baudelaire
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration comes of working every day... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
Music fathoms the sky... view
By: Charles Baudelaire
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