More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
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 a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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?
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
