02UndatedWhat strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
03UndatedLife has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
05UndatedAnd, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
06UndatedL'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
07UndatedOn peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident dans cette tragédie dont chacun est le héros.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
08UndatedThe 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 convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken AmmiCharles Baudelaire / quote ↗
09UndatedDo you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in needburning its wedding poisonslike a fountain with its rhythmic sobs,I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound,but I touch my body in vain to find the wound.I am the vampire of my own heart,one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughterwho can no longer smile.Am I dead?I must be dead.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
10UndatedMy love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
11UndatedIt's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink!The land rots; we shall sail into the night;if now the sky and sea are black as inkour hearts, as you must know, are filled with light.Only when we drink poison are we well —we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue,to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell,who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage")Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
13UndatedOne should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
14UndatedRelate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
15UndatedWith heart at rest I climbed the citadel'sSteep height, and saw the city as from a tower,Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,Where evil comes up softly like a flower.Thou knowest, O Satan, patron of my pain,Not for vain tears I went up at that hour;But like an old sad faithful lecher, fainTo drink delight of that enormous trullWhose hellish beauty makes me young again.Whether thou sleep, with heavy vapors full,Sodden with day, or, new appareled, standIn gold-laced veils of evening beautiful,I love thee, infamous city! Harlots andHunted have pleasures of their own to give,The vulgar herd can never understand.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
16UndatedAny healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
17UndatedIl était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuveLa pleine lune s'étalait,Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuveSur Paris dormant ruisselait.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
18UndatedIf rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
19UndatedTell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,Your mother, your sister, or your brother?I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother.Your friends?Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known.Your country?I do not know in what latitude it lies.Beauty?I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal.Gold?I hate it as you hate God.Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger?I love the clouds the clouds that pass up thereUp there the wonderful clouds!Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
20UndatedIf the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
21UndatedHe possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
22UndatedI set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
23UndatedA book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
