Quotes by : Charles Baudelaire

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win....

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away;....

If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we....

Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested.....

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two....

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;We find delight in the most loathsome things;Some furtherance....

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.