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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
French poet [more author details]

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.: Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.: Charles Baudelaire
Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.: Charles Baudelaire
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.: Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.: Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.: Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.: Charles Baudelaire
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.: Charles Baudelaire
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.: Charles Baudelaire
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.: Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.: Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII
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