Charles Baudelaire Quotes about History

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
"Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud".