Charles Baudelaire

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #done #effort #evil #fate

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#inner voice #nature #nothing #self-interest #voice

Nothing can be done except little by little. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#except #little #nothing

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. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#another #give #hate #hatred #instinctive

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arms #being #being human #dance #dancing

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#evening #his #man #posting #prayer

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#along #best #get #them #those

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arts #aspiration #available #color #every

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#any #conditions #does #his #life

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cannot #disgust #first #hand #horrors