Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our b >>

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, >>

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

Quotations about Contemplation

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to co >>

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less fro >>

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness witho >>

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Baudelaire, Charles