Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and eve >>

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

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as >>

Quotations about Catholicism

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. >>

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination >>

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're >>

Our religion is itself profoundly sad -- a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language -- so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Baudelaire, Charles