It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Charles Baudelaire More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire More Quotes From Charles Baudelaire What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties! Charles Baudelaire mysterious queens imagination On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there. Charles Baudelaire centralization self That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing. Charles Baudelaire reign mediocrity becoming I lived for a long time under vast porticos Charles Baudelaire pillars fire long In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol. Charles Baudelaire perception eye soul I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire. Charles Baudelaire france conformity bored I am the wound and the knife! Charles Baudelaire knives self heart The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated. Charles Baudelaire dueling artist history The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. Charles Baudelaire crowds literature believe Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. Charles Baudelaire adultery sexuality literature I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? Charles Baudelaire hysteria seductive devil Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire decay progress literature It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. Charles Baudelaire satanic would-be perfect La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure. Charles Baudelaire richness pleasure grace Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. Charles Baudelaire cat wise attitude Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices. Charles Baudelaire dust dark latin The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers. Charles Baudelaire thoughtful joy men Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty! Charles Baudelaire nudity pearls girl These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind. Charles Baudelaire passion believe thinking How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, Charles Baudelaire winter night memories
