72 Quotations by Charles Baudelaire
- 41. On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has ...

- 42. On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has ...

- 43. Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of ...

- 44. Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and ...

- 45. The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of ...

- 46. The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of ...

- 47. The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the how ...

- 48. The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the how ...

- 49. The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

- 50. The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as thoug ...

- 51. The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates h ...

- 52. The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

- 53. The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sl ...

- 54. The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs ...

- 55. The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can ...

- 56. The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous p ...

- 57. The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will giv ...

- 58. The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

- 59. There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

- 60. There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invoca ...

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