573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be ‘two’. The man of genius wants to be ‘one’... It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls ‘the need to love’.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness – he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Dis-moi, ton coeur parfois s’envole-t-il, Agathe!

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

Nature is a temple in which living pillars Sometimes give voice to confused words;.

Art dulls the terror of the void better than anything else.

What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.

He whose thoughts, like skylarks, Toward the morning sky take flight – Who hovers over life and understands with ease The language of flowers and silent things!