Charles Baudelaire Quotes

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. - Charles Baudelaire

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We are all born marked for evil. - Charles Baudelaire

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if were indifferent to whether we win or lose? - Charles Baudelaire

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star. - Charles Baudelaire