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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
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.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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.
