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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
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.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.