Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Un artiste n'est un artiste que grâce à son sens exquis du beau, - sens qui lui procure des jouissances enivrantes, mais qui en même temps implique, enferme un sens également exquis de toute difformité et de toute disproportion.
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La femme ne sait pas séparer l'âme du corps.
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.
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Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Les autres hommes sont taillables et corvéables, faits pour l'écurie, c'est-à-dire pour exercer ce qu'on appelle des professions.
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On ne peut oublier le temps qu'en s'en servant.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.
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Glorifier le culte des images (ma grande, mon unique, ma primitive passion).
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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C'est par le malentendu universel que tout le monde s'accorde.Car si, par malheur, on se comprenait, on ne pourrait jamais s'accorder.
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Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer.