"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the in...

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Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
More Charles Baudelaire quotes
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familia...
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
"Nature can counsel nothing but crime.