Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.


Charles Baudelaire

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No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Remembering is only a new form of suffering.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
If rape or arson, poison or the knife
Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff
Of this d...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Le serpent qui danse

Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity�...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the cent...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ...
BAUDELAIRE
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
CHARLES SIMIC