More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
