More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
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.
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.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
