Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
Charles BaudelaireWhat strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
Charles BaudelaireOh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?
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With wine, poetry, or virtue
as you choose.
But get drunk.
The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
We revel in the laxness of the path we take.
Charles BaudelaireNothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.
Charles BaudelaireHe possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
Charles BaudelaireTags: art writing writers fantasy creativity failure impossible
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
Charles BaudelaireTags: fashion artificiality costume
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