More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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.
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
