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More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.