Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred — Charles Baudelaire
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. — Charles Baudelaire
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. — Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work. — Charles Baudelaire