More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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 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.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
