573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world."

"The mainspring of genius is curiosity."

"...belki de mutluluğu hak etmiş olanlar, tam da fanilerin anladığı anlamda mutluluk fikrinin onlar üzerinde kusturucu bir etki yaptığı kişilerdir."

"Her voice makes perfume when she speaks,Her breath is music faint and low."

"Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?"

"Each day we’re one step further into Hell,Content to move across the stinking pit."

"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."

"Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive."