More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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.
