Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.
Charles BaudelaireNo task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
Charles BaudelaireAll 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 BaudelaireThere are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
Charles Baudelaire