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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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.
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?
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
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.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
