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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?
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.