Quotes from Charles Baudelaire

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.