This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which,...

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which,...

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art,...

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art,...

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created...

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be...

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the...

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even,...

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even,...

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is...

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is...

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of...

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of...

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important...

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important...

We are all born marked for evil.

We are all born marked for evil.

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And...

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And...

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as...

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as...

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood...

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood...