Showing All Charles Baudelaire Quotes


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Quote #1:   "Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry."
Quote #2:   "There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
Quote #3:   "It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten."
Quote #4:   "It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Quote #5:   "There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
Quote #6:   "It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."