Charles Baudelaire Quote

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.


My heart laid bare, and other prose writings (ed. 1951)


In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be,...

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be,...

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be,...

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be,...