Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element o >>

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. >>

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer co >>

Quotations about Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child. >>

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them. >>

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to >>

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles