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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
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?
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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.
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.
