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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. – Charles Baudelaire

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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. – Charles Baudelaire

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Soul
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Charles Baudelaire
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

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Insults
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. – Thomas Aquinas

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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period. – Donald Pleasence

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. – Pearl S. Buck

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To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky. – Harvey Fierstein

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