God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent, it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.Quote by Charles Baudelaire about being