Charles Baudelaire

"The universe is a kind of thought."

"In every landscape, there is a certain beauty which speaks to the soul."

"Work is the alternative to despair."

"My passions are in my heart; my thoughts in my head."

"There is not a single human being who has not something monstrous about him."

"In a passionate state of mind, the images succeed one another rapidly."

"The perfumes that we gather from the air are often the sweetest."

"To debauch means to corrupt, but what if you are already corrupt?"

"The true traveler is always moving forward."

"Melancholy and pessimism are the true source of wit."

"The lover dreams of a beloved and constructs within himself a wondrous vision."

"Tender, eternal, and exquisite as a perfume."

"The knowledge of good and evil is the final state of man."

"What is the color of virtue? It is the red of blood and the black of shadow."

"The beautiful season announces the end of sorrow."

"I am my own master; I acknowledge no authority."

"Boredom is the nightmare of those who think too much."

"There is in every human being a spark of the divine."

"The past is a mirror that reveals the present."

"All beautiful things belong to the sphere of sadness."

"The one true art is to be immortal."

"A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it."

"The most noble conquest is achieved when the aim in view has become the passion of the heart."

"Our country is hell; our rulers are devils."

"In any case, the lover is always deluded."

"What is a beautiful woman? It is a human being."

"The greatest experience is that of loving and being loved."

"Poetry is what is destroyed in translation."

"I love darkness and silence."

"The good of mankind must be the great objective of virtue."