Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. – Charles Baudelaire

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

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respect
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Beauty
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Every performance is different. Thats the beauty of it. – Van Morrison

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Beauty

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques dont match our own beliefs about how we should look. – Martha Beck

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Beauty

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. – Petrarch

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Beauty

The U.S. states that allow for citizens initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that dont. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice. – Daniel Hannan

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Beauty

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One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people – and not the other way around. – Scott Walker

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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. – Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

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I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace. – Richard Cobden

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Peace

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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