More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
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.
