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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
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.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
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?
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
