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Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
― Charles Baudelaire
Beware
Common Folk
Common Sense
Inspiration
Charles Baudelaire
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
― Charles Baudelaire
Tinged
Yellow
Imagination
Charles Baudelaire
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
― Charles Baudelaire
Passion
Wrong
Gently
Charles Baudelaire
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
― Charles Baudelaire
Suppress
Love
Wanted
Marriage
Charles Baudelaire
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?
― Charles Baudelaire
Reality
Myself
Live
Charles Baudelaire
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
― Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful
Result
Calculation
Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
― Charles Baudelaire
Conceive
Barely
Melancholy
Charles Baudelaire
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
― Charles Baudelaire
Immense
Biography
Sense
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.
― Charles Baudelaire
Life
Marvelous Subjects
Enveloped
Atmosphere
Charles Baudelaire
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
― Charles Baudelaire
No Task
Long
Start
Nightmare
Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
― Charles Baudelaire
Garden
Storehouse
Company
Charles Baudelaire
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
― Charles Baudelaire
Life
Charm
Indifferent
Charles Baudelaire
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
― Charles Baudelaire
Committed
Naturally
Goodness
Charles Baudelaire
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
― Charles Baudelaire
Small Child
Heart
Contradictory
Life
Charles Baudelaire
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
― Charles Baudelaire
Understand
Honor
Newspaper
Shudder
Charles Baudelaire
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
― Charles Baudelaire
Open
Window
Fewer
Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
― Charles Baudelaire
Handle
Language
Sorcery
Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
― Charles Baudelaire
Conceive
Beauty
Melancholy
Charles Baudelaire
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
― Charles Baudelaire
Insatiable
Everything
Beyond
Immortality
Charles Baudelaire
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
― Charles Baudelaire
Genius
More
Childhood
Charles Baudelaire