Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
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.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
