Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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The soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes so embarrassing that at this loss I felt only a little more emotion than if, during a walk, I had lost my visiting card.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
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Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuéesQui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer ;Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
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Music fathoms the sky.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,Luxe, calme et volupté.
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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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.
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But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.
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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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Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.
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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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La femme ne sait pas séparer l'âme du corps.
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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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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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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.