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.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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?
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
