Charles Baudelaire II

Always be a poet, even in prose.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

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