Charles Baudelaire

"We love what is beautiful in nature because it accords with beauty in ourselves."

"Every man has the capacity to be noble."

"Moderation is the virtue of those who are not vigorous."

"The source of all sublime feeling is the sense of the infinite."

"Love, whether sexual, filial or fraternal, is really the exposition of the mystery of being."

"To love someone is to hope to be loved in return."

"The whole world of matter is nothing but a dream of God."

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

"The beautiful is always strange."

"In the midst of the winter, I found there was, after all, an invincible summer within me."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined?"

"If you exclude passion, recklessness and abandon from political judgment, what is left?"

"Art, love, and beauty are the only things that matter in life."

"The true paradise is the paradise that we have lost."

"A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved."

"Nature is always the same, and the passions of men are always the same."

"The great lesson of life is to know oneself."

"Genius is only a great aptitude for patience."

"Beauty exists in the extraordinary, not the ordinary."

"The sting of a reproach is the truth of it."

"Evil is performed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."

"The infinite is present in every finite thing."

"A woman who does not love is not a woman."

"Death is the glorious end of the actor."

"Love is the greatest teacher of all."

"The true wealth of a nation lies in its beauty."

"God gives us dreams and visions to show us the way."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"The most important thing is to find your passion and pursue it with all your heart."

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."