Paris Spleen and Wine and Hashish Quotes

“Do you know that high fever which invades us in our cold suffering, that aching for a land we do not know, that anguish of curiosity? There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still, where fantasy has built and adorned a western China, where life is sweet to breathe, where happiness is wed to silence. That is where to live, that is where to die!"

- Invitation to a Voyage”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen and Wine and Hashish

“Work makes prosperous days, wine makes happy Sundays.

- Wine and Hashish”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen and Wine and Hashish

“The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen and Wine and Hashish

“I sing of calamitous dogs, those that wander among the winding ravines of great cities, or those whose sparkling, winning eyes have asked some misfit: "Take me with you, and our combined wretchedness might make some sort of happiness!”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen and Wine and Hashish

“Art dulls the terror of the void better than anything else.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen and Wine and Hashish