Charles Baudelaire
"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."
Charles Baudelaire
"Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes."
Charles Baudelaire
"For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty."
Charles Baudelaire
"Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
Charles Baudelaire
"However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it."
Charles Baudelaire
"Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage."
Charles Baudelaire
"The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things."
Charles Baudelaire
"The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things."
Charles Baudelaire
"Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing."
Charles Baudelaire
"Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned."
Charles Baudelaire
"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."
Charles Baudelaire
"Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end."
Charles Baudelaire
"The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Charles Baudelaire
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Charles Baudelaire
"La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous."
Charles Baudelaire
"La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous."
Charles Baudelaire
"Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution."
Charles Baudelaire
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Charles Baudelaire
"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill."
Charles Baudelaire
"Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal."
Charles Baudelaire
"In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think."
Charles Baudelaire
"Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue."
Charles Baudelaire
"I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul."
Charles Baudelaire
"When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies."
Charles Baudelaire
"One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Charles Baudelaire
"One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Charles Baudelaire
"Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country."
Charles Baudelaire
"Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed."
Charles Baudelaire
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