This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window. Charles Baudelaire More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire More Quotes From Charles Baudelaire All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. Charles Baudelaire result noble reason beautiful The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. Charles Baudelaire beyond everything living life Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. Charles Baudelaire which modernity half art