More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
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?
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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.
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.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
