More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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?
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.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
