573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

This fencing, this clashing of steel, are the uproar Of youth when it becomes a prey to puling love.

One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair. Since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

And yet to wine, to opium even, / I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Through the unknown, we'll find the new.