baudelaire Quotes

“The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.”

“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”

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

“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”

“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”

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

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”

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