“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
— Charles Baudelaire“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
— Charles Baudelaire“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
— Charles Baudelaire“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
— Charles Baudelaire“And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”
— Charles Baudelaire“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
— Charles Baudelaire“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
— Charles Baudelaire“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”
— Charles Baudelaire