"Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
― Charles Baudelaire
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Religion
― Charles Baudelaire
More From Charles Baudelaire
- "The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated."
- "Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
- "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."
More In Religion
- "When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."― John Woolman
- "I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."― Peter Jennings
- "There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply."― Thom Gunn