More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
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?
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.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
