Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Nature is a temple in which living pillars Sometimes give voice to confused words;” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, in the expansiveness of her joy, the Moon filled all of the room like a phosphoric atmosphere, like a luminous poison;… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Life is a hospital, in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed. This one would prefer to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if were indifferent to whether we win or lose? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
