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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.