“To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).” Quote by Charles Baudelaire
“What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!” ImaginationMysteriousQueensFaculty Author:Charles Baudelaire
“On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.” SelfCentralization Author:Charles Baudelaire
“That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.” BecomingAll TimeMediocrityReignTriumphantDistressing Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.” LongMadeSeemsSunFireThousandLong TimeEveningCavesPillarsMaritime Author:Charles Baudelaire
“In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.” MaySoulStatesEyeCertainPerceptionOrdinarySymbolsProfundity Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.” FranceBoredConformity Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.” HeartSelfMy OwnVictimWoundsVampireTortureKnivesCheeksLimbsSlapRacksExecutioners Author:Charles Baudelaire
“The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.” PleasureTasteConcernSalvationHanging On Author:Charles Baudelaire
“However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.” HumansMayExistenceHuman NatureUnityBotheredHuman ExistenceNot Bothered Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.” PeopleMenOrderForceNationsMillionsGreaterGreatnessResistanceGreat MenSpiteLike Family Author:Charles Baudelaire