Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.


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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
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
The Ghost

Like angels fierce and tawny-eyed,
Back to your chamber I will glide, ROY CAMPBELL, POEMS OF BAUDELAIRE (NEW YORK: PANTHEON BOOKS, 1952)