"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."
― Charles Baudelaire
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Beauty
― Charles Baudelaire
More From Charles Baudelaire
- "Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest."
- "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."
- "Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man’s own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."
More In Beauty
- "You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave."― Giuseppe Garibaldi
- "If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."― Robert Brault
- "Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."― Aldous Huxley