More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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?
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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.
