Charles Baudelaire
"What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice."
Charles Baudelaire
"No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare."
Charles Baudelaire
"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"
Charles Baudelaire
"To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches."
Charles Baudelaire
"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."
Charles Baudelaire
"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."
Charles Baudelaire
"What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures."
Charles Baudelaire
"Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious."
Charles Baudelaire
"In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it."
Charles Baudelaire
"Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."
Charles Baudelaire
"There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed."
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."
Charles Baudelaire
"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."
Charles Baudelaire
"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility."
Charles Baudelaire
"Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Charles Baudelaire
"Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love."
Charles Baudelaire
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