Character: Baudelaire

That it cannot lose. Do not forget!

A combination of sudden sound with light.

A combination of sudden sound with light.

Man is the burden of fate; the peace promised to him is unreliable, a carefree life is a deception. The lot of the peasant at all times drive a shovel with a bloody foot into the cruel surface of the earth.

Man is condemned to evil, born to him: greed, depravity, stupidity, meanness, pride ... The poison of power, the adoration of the whip by the people - everything has roots in human nature.

I do not need anyone else's poverty for my pleasure, I do not desire wealth that is paid for by grief.

Humility means acceptance. But how can one accept falsehood, hypocrisy, suffering, disorder, this very humility? Since evil reigns in the world, the calling of art to reflect it with ruthless frankness, to comprehend its essence.

I cannot imagine such a type of Beauty in which there would be no Misery at all.

Read to love me.

Every person has two gravitations at the same time: to God and Satan.

Poetry is not necessarily poetry, just as poetry for the most part is not poetry.

The immensity of dreams with the limit of the seas.

It is illuminated by a ray of anxious heavens.

That is empty as heaven, scattered il deep.