Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the...#Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of...#Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered,...#Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood...#Charles Baudelaire
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle....#Charles Baudelaire
