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Charles Baudelaire Quotes about Love

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

"Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.95, Courier Corporation

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

"Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr