Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

Nothing can be done except little by little. >>

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, >>

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one ha >>

Quotations about Materialism

Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a >>

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important >>

There must be more to life than having everything. >>

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Baudelaire, Charles