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.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
