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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
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.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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?
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
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.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.