02UndatedWe love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
03UndatedTime is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
04UndatedLife is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
05UndatedThe man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
08UndatedThere is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
09UndatedAs a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
10UndatedHow many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
12UndatedOh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
13UndatedThe old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
15UndatedThere exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
16UndatedIt is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
17UndatedThere are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
18UndatedEverything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
19UndatedWe are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
21UndatedThe dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
22UndatedThere are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
23UndatedEven if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
24UndatedOur 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.Charles Baudelaire / quote ↗
