The Flowers Of Evil Quotes

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition

“On evil's cushion poised, His Majesty,
Satan Thrice-Great, lulls our charmed soul, until
He turns to vapor what was once our will:
Rich ore, transmuted by his alchemy.”
― Baudelaire

“My hand smells really good these days. Wanna sniff it?”
― Shuzo Oshimi, The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 1

“I... I... I want to be normal!”
― Shuzo Oshimi, The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 2