72 Quotations by Charles Baudelaire
- 1. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud ...

- 2. A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

- 3. A multiple of small delights constitute happiness.

- 4. A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

- 5. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

- 6. Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in ...

- 7. All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or les ...

- 8. All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element o ...

- 9. Always be a poet, even in prose.

- 10. Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.

- 11. Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.

- 12. As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessa ...

- 13. Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, drea ...

- 14. Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that ...

- 15. Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

- 16. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an ...

- 17. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- 18. For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to esta ...

- 19. Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical mean ...

- 20. Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

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