More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
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.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
