More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
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?
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
