More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
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.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
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.
