3 Charles Baudelaire Quotes on Evil

Charles Baudelaire quotes on evil

37. Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.

42. Il y a dans tout homme, a toute heure, deux postulations simultanees, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.

66. Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.