More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
