Quotes by : Charles Baudelaire

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!....

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite....

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable....

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit....

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests....

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use....

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.....

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.