"God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn’t even need to exist." ― Charles Baudelaire Topic(s): God More From Charles Baudelaire "It is from the womb of art that criticism was born." "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." "I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy." More In God "God’s first creature, which was light."― Francis Bacon "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."― George S. Patton "God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."― R. Buckminster Fuller