Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not w

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire

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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. – Charles Baudelaire

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Thought
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. – Charles Baudelaire

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Immortality
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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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If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. – Francis Quarles

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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. – English Proverb

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Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. – Herbert M. Shelton

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There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. – Scotty Bowman

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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. – Douglas MacArthur

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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesnt show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. – Jeff Goodell

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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. – Johann von Goethe

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