I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. – Charles Baudelaire
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Charles Baudelaire
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont