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“It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Source: Paris Spleen

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”

Charles Baudelaire

“It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”

Charles Baudelaire

Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Source: Paris Spleen

“the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

“So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.”

Charles Baudelaire

“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

“It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.”

Charles Baudelaire

“He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!”

Charles Baudelaire

“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.”

Charles Baudelaire

“Hypocrite reader — my likeness — my brother!”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère! <br class="br">&quot;Au Lecteur&quot; [To the Reader] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Au_lecteur_%28Les_Fleurs_du_mal%29 <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

“This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit. <br class="br">XLVIII: &quot;Anywhere out of the world&quot; http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Anywhere_out_of_the_world <br class="br">Le Spleen de Paris (1862) <br class="br">Source: On Wine and Hashish

“Music fathoms the sky.”

Charles Baudelaire

“We revel in the laxness of the path we take.”

Charles Baudelaire