Charles Baudelaire Quotes about Desire

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There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Charles Baudelaire

Inspire, Desire, Conquer

Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

Desire, Bed, Literature

"The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Charles Baudelaire

Fashion, Mind, Desire