Quote by Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, becaus

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

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Criticism
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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

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Labor
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. – Galileo Galilei

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There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell

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Its incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves. – Bjork

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Better bend than break. – Scottish Proverb

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. – Casey Stengel

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