573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

Thank you. You have shown me the way back to myself.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.