Charles Baudelaire Quote

There is in all change something at once sordid and agreeable, which smacks of infidelity and household removals. This is sufficient to explain the French Revolution.


Journaux intimes (1887) 'Mon coeur mis à nu' no. 4 (translated by Christopher Isherwood)


There is in all change something at once sordid and agreeable, which smacks of infidelity and household removals. This is sufficient to explain the...

There is in all change something at once sordid and agreeable, which smacks of infidelity and household removals. This is sufficient to explain the...

There is in all change something at once sordid and agreeable, which smacks of infidelity and household removals. This is sufficient to explain the...

There is in all change something at once sordid and agreeable, which smacks of infidelity and household removals. This is sufficient to explain the...