Author: Charles Baudelaire

Cited by

• Richard Preston (1)
  • IN: The Cobra Event (1994) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Children's Literature, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
    FROM: Le spleen de Paris, (1869), Poem, France
• Pat Conroy (1)
  • IN: The Lords of Discipline (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With heart at rest I climb the citadel's steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells, where evil comes up softly like a flower
    FROM: Epilogue, (1869), Poem, France
• Eddie Tay (1)
  • IN: Lover's Soliloquy (2005) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: You see, my dear angel, how difficult it is to understand one another, and how incommunicable all thoughts are, even between people who love each other!
    FROM: The Eyes of the Poor, (1869), Poem, France
• T. Michael Martin (1)
  • IN: Mr. Fahrenheit (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But the true voyagers are those who leave For the sake of leaving: hearts light, like balloons, They never swerve from their destinies, And without knowing why, they say always. "We must go!"
    FROM: The Voyage, (1857), Book, France
• Jean Cocteau (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Machine and other Plays (1963) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: "...at that point where I can scarely conceive (could my brain be an enchanted mirror?) a kind of beauty in which there is no misfortune." "Like all my friends, I have tried more than once to enclose myself in a system and preach there at my ease. But a system is a sort of damnation... I have come back to seek shelter in impeccable naivete. It is there that my philosophical conscience finds rest."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Russell Banks (1)
  • IN: The Reserve (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am beautiful as a dream of stone.
    FROM: Beauty, (None), Poem, France
• Carolyn Jess-Cooke (1)
  • IN: The Boy Who Could See Demons (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince us all that he does not exist.
    FROM: Le Spleen de Paris, (1869), Book, France
• James Twining (1)
  • IN: The Double Eagle (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Là, tout nést quórdre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté
    FROM: L´Invitation au Voyage, (1857), Book, France
• Colin Harrison (1)
  • IN: You Belong to Me (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The city changes faster than the human heart
    FROM: The Swan, (1861), Poem, France
• Rachel Kushner (1)
  • IN: Telex from Cuba (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All is order there, and elegance, pleasure, peace and opulence.
    FROM: Invitation to the Voyage, (1857), Poem, France
• Matthew Guinn (1)
  • IN: The Scribe (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'unes vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.
    FROM: Mon Couer Mis à Nu, (1897), Book, France
• John Burnside (1)
  • IN: Ashland & Vine (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujour le produit d'un art.
    FROM: Le Peintre de la vie moderne, (1863), Essay, France
• Jodi Picoult (1)
  • IN: Vanishing Acts (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
    FROM: La Fanfarlo, (1847), Novel, France
• Roberto Bolaño (1)
  • IN: 2666 (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
    FROM: The Voyage, (1857), Poem, France
• Samantha Toh (1)
  • IN: The Flowers (2016) Fiction, Short Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [The Devil] holds the strings that move us, limb by limb.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France