Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteursDu Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeursde l’Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l’Arbre de Science,Près de toi se repose, à l’heure où sur ton frontComme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s’épandront!
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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Toutes les beautés contiennent, comme tous les phénomènes possibles, quelque chose d'éternel et quelque chose de transitoire - d'absolu et de particulier.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles:'Homme, vers toi je pousse, ô cher déshérité,Sous ma prison de verre et mes cires vermeilles.'
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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Soon we shall plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our short-lived summers!
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Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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If rape and poison, dagger and burning, have still not embroidered their pleasant designs on the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies, it’s because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé.
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.