Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Best 12 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
“A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
“I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.”
“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist.”
“No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.”
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
“The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
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“I assured her that she would meet with immediate attention; and that English justice, which was no respecter of persons, would speedily and amply avenge her on the brutal ruffian who had plundered her little property. She promised me that she would; but she delayed taking steps the steps I pointed out from time to time: for she was timid and dejected to a degree which showed how deeply sorrow had taken hold of her young heart: and perhaps she thought justly that the most upright judge, and the most righteous tribunals, could do nothing to repair her heaviest wrongs.”
