How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the opaque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.

— Charles Baudelaire

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.

— Charles Baudelaire

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

— Charles Baudelaire

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

— Charles Baudelaire

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!

— Charles Baudelaire

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

— Charles Baudelaire

I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.

— Charles Baudelaire

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

— Charles Baudelaire

IL Étaín hard; ANSI EU'one Melville Neufeld plane line s'earlier, Et la solemnity de la newt, come un fleuveSur Paris dormant ruisselait.

— Charles Baudelaire

IL me female Que JE series tours Bain la of JE NE sews pas. It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

— Charles Baudelaire