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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
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 of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
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?
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
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.
