Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

 

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.



 Charles Baudelaire