More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
