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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
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 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.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
