Quotes About Charles Baudelaire

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Who in the face of love dares speak to me of Hell! - Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta

Patent symbols, perfect picture Of an irremediable fate Which makes one think that the Devil Always does well whatever he does!

Art dulls the terror of the void better than anything else.

Toute phrase doit être en soi un monument bien coordonné, l'ensemble de tous ces monuments formant la ville qui est le Livre.

The Revolution had been made by voluptuaries.

To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.

The soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes so embarrassing that I suffered, upon losing it, a little less emotion than if I had mislaid, while out on a stroll, my calling-card.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.