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.
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?
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
