Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

—Charles Baudelaire

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About Charles Baudelaire

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Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of...

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Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

—Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

—Charles Baudelaire

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

—Charles Baudelaire

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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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When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

—John J. Plomp

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Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

—Margaret Atwood

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway.

—Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel

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