It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

Inspiration comes of working every day. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. - Charles Baudelaire. View more images...