More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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?
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
