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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.