Famous Quotes | Although Samuel had a depraved...
Although Samuel had a depraved imagination—perhaps even because of this—love, for him, was less a matter of the senses than of the intellect. It was, above all, admiration and appetite for beauty; he considered reproduction a flaw of love, and pregnancy a form of insanity. He wrote on one occasion: “Angels are hermaphrodite and sterile.”
- Charles Baudelaire
Attribution: Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, critic. La Fanfarlo (1847), trans. 1986.
Categories: Angels, Beauty, Critic, Love
