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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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.
