The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

—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

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

—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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If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.

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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

—Lady Mary Worley Montagu

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It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

—James Hillman

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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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