“The Beautiful is always strange…it always contains a touch of strangeness, of simple, unpremeditated and unconscious strangeness, and it is that touch of strangeness that gives it its particular quality as Beauty.”
More from Charles Baudelaire
“Every man carries within him his dose of natural opium, incessantly secreted and renewed.”
“Every man carries within him his dose of natural opium, incessantly secreted and renewed.”
“You are an autumn sky, suffused with a rose. Yet sadness rises in me like the sea, and on…”
“Let me rest in your love. – But no, – love will give me no rest.”