More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
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?
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
